1.   WORLD chess champion Garry Kasparov has gained an early advantage in his battle with British challenger Nigel Short -- without even moving a piece.

2.   An exception is the low-key campaign of former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov, who has been endorsed by Communists in the Duma.

3.   And that is also why Kasparov is not one of those who believes it inevitable that a computer will eventually unseat humans as chess champions.

4.   At least chess champion Deep Blue had to make decisions on its own.

5.   A computer beat a world chess champion.

6.   But a generation ago, no one would have foreseen a computer handily beating the world chess champion, either.

7.   But now that we have sent the greatest chess champion in human history into battle, the prospect of defeat seems unnerving.

8.   Chess champion Gary Kasperov appears in another ad, while a fourth spot is set on a subway.

9.   Deep Blue defeated the world chess champion by leveraging a moderate amount of chess knowledge with a huge amount of blind, high-speed searching power.

10.   Games like tic tac toe and checkers fell very quickly to automation and finally, this year, a computer became world chess champion.