Interesting... Reading this entry somewhat awakened my interest in computer chess... And I think I have stumled upon a nice example "inteligence as book smart" misconception.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960

"Fischer believed that eliminating memorized book moves would level the playing field; as an accidental consequence, it makes computer chess programs much weaker, as they rely heavily on the opening book to beat humans."

Classic example of "bias". The reality:

"In 2005, the chess program Shredder, developed by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen from DĂźsseldorf, Germany, played two games against ZoltĂĄn AlmĂĄsi from Hungary; Shredder won 2-0."

That was only the second public match of computer vs human.

It is also worth noting that almost the equal relevance in the wiki article is given to human competitions as is to computer ones.

Now, of course, the remaining question is: "does the machine understand chinesse if it can speak better than chinaman"? :)