Former world chess champ Garry Kasparov also says he wants to be the next president, maybe.
In 1981, Anatoly Karpov retained the World Chess Championship, beating Viktor Korchnoi in Italy.
World chess champion Vishy Anand has retained his title against Israeli Boris Gelfand.
In addition to Secretary Weinberger, previous honorees have been World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov and Senator Malcolm Wallop (R-WY).
The world chess championship was being played in Moscow for the first time since Garry Kasparov beat Anatoly Karpov in 1985.
The most famous head to head battle was in 1997 when a computer called Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
Filatov has previously merged his love of chess and art by sponsoring this year's World Chess Championship Match at Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery.
Task World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand with explaining every slide of a pawn or block of a bishop and he might lose sight of the board.
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Mr. Kasparov, the world chess champion and head of the Moscow region branch of the Democratic Party of Russia, is a contributing editor of the Journal.
Garry Kasparov, former World Chess Champion and possibly the greatest chess player of all time, thinks the U.S. has become complacent when it comes to innovation.
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If the machine works as researchers think it will, chess masters ought to look out -- Blue Gene would be 1, 000 times more powerful than the Deep Blue machine that defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.
Fred Waitzkin is the author of Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess, and he has recently completed a first novel, The Dream Merchant.
That is not a small sum in the chess world and it is intended to ensure that the professionals turn up.
Then Mr Ilyuzhinov stepped in to re-unite the chess world by merging the rival world championship cycles into one big knock-out event.
The 1993 Chess World Championship match between Britain's Nigel Short and Russia's Gary Kasparov was extensively televised and made Mr Short an instant fortune.
But through a deliberate (and still continuing) psychological experiment, Dr Polgar and his wife created a trio of world-class chess champions out of their own daughters, overturning this prejudice.
While chess programs have played at a world-class level for two decades, backgammon software based on the same brute-force approach has never achieved more than a weak intermediate level of play.
Around 4m people can play the game, chess clubs have sprouted, and in 1997 Britain even beat the Russians, traditionally the world's strongest players, to win the European team championships.
Talking about the game with my son, Josh, an International Master, and later on with former world champion Gary Kasparov, whom I wrote about extensively, I began to understand the art of chess, or rather, I began to "feel it" like music.
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