Devastating Chess Computer Looks to Poker

When online poker players complain about poker bots, they are worried about small computer applications that are playing mathematically perfect hands, immune to distraction, human error, and going on tilt. If Monty Newborn, a professor of computer science at McGill University, has it right, there might be a lot more to worry about in the future. Newborn has targeted poker and the Japanese game of "Go" as the next two targets for computer programmers, now that the chess program "Deep Fritz" has proved its superiority by beating the reigning world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik in a six-game chess match.