Amateur beats Rybka blindfold – while hell freezes over

Intecracy Group Consortium is congratulation Ukrainian neurosurgeon, Doctor of Medicine, Professor Andrew Slyusarchuk. Hi’s beat computer Rybka 4.0 in a two-game blindfold match after reading three thousand books on the subject. The reports also says the 39-year-old doctor can recite 20,000 books by heart and has memorized 30 million digits of Pi.

Ukrainian Andrew Slyusarchuk sensationally won the match against the smartest and the strongest chess computer program in the world, "Rybka-4" at Thursday, 27 of April. He spent eight months to understand the principles of the program. Slyusarchuk had read about three thousand books about chess. Skeptics have not believed that Andrew Slyusarchuk will be able to cope with the program. Nobody could do it before.

The first batch Slyusarchuk played blindfold with the white chess. He has not seen a chessboard, but just have memorize moves.

 

For the second leg he used black chess. In general, the player has spent about two hours for a duel with the computer. Seven years ago Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov had a fight with the computer. The man lost the game. After his defeat chess players have not gambled with the machines.

Andrew Slyusarchuk does not apply for the title of grandmaster. He just wanted to show the audience that the potential of the human's brain is not fully used. Slyusarchuk is an amateur in chess playing – he is a neurosurgeon. 39-year-old MD specializes in the brain studying as well as improving memory technologies development. He knows by heart 20,000 books and 30 million digits of the pi number.