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Squid writes: After the Brains in Bahrain competition, which pitted World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik against an expensive computer named Deep Fritz, ended in a stalemate this week, its organizers have scheduled a new game in which Kramnik will face a giant robot.

“Let’s face it,” said a spokesman for Einstein Group, who organized the event, “We spent lots of money promoting this and it ended up making Man-Machine Chess look as exciting as tic tac toe. We think Kramnik owes us a contest worth watching.”

At this writing, it was uncertain whether Kramnik would accept the challenge. “While he is used to battling computers,” said his agent, “he is a bit wary of the laser death-ray eyes and the pulverizing grip of this particular model.” Organizers are hoping to entice Kramnik by offering him his choice of ray gun.