No, it’s not an upcoming movie where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ nemesis battles Hercules’ multi-headed foe (unfortunately… that would be pretty awesome). Rather Shredder is the world champion chess computer running on a superfast four-processor system. Shredder will battle Hydra, a Deep Blue style hardware program running on a 16-way Linux cluster.

The eight round match will take place at the 14th Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival between Saturday, August 14th and Tuesday, August 24, 2004. Can last week’s top chess computer hold on to its title, or will this scruffy upstart with a heart central processing unit of gold win top prize? Only time will tell!