MANAMA, Oct 9: World champion Vladimir Kramnik outwitted the world’s most powerful chess computer Deep Fritz Tuesday, to win the third game in a match dubbed the ‘Brains in Bahrain’ contest.

The 27-year-old Russian, playing with black pieces, beat German-developed Fritz in 51 moves to lead the eight-game series 2.5-05. The first game was drawn.

Fritz is capable of evaluating 3.5 million moves per second and the man-versus-machine contest is a sequel to Gary Kasparov’s 1997 battle with super-computer Deep Blue in New York. The computer won that contest.

Kramnik, who was crowned world champion in 2000 when he beat compatriot Kasparov in London, will get $1 million if he wins,—Reuters