The first so-called world championship between people and computers has ended in Spanish Bilbao. Ukrainians Serhiy Karyakin and Ruslan Ponomariov, as well as Bulgarian Veselin Topalov, were crushed by the machines "Junior", "Fritz 8" and "Hydra" with a score of 8:3.5.
In the last two rounds, the humans managed to score only one point in six games. Ruslan Ponomariov drew with "Junior", and lost to "Hydra" in the final match. Serhiy Karyakin lost his last two games. First, the youngest grandmaster in the world lost to "Hydra", and then was unable to put up resistance to the "Fritz 8" program.