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These man vs computer chess matches are sooo stooopid!

They are actually chess master vs "huge group of wanna-be chess masters who wrote a computer program that combines the best of the miserable skills each of them have"

In relative terms the computer gets a million lifetimes to compute each move... the chess master has only a brief instant in comparison.

To be fair either the chess master gets a million years to ponder each move (ridiculous of course) or the computer should get 1/10,000,000 of a second of cpu time to search for the best move.... guess who would win :-)

Actually to be really fair the chess master should work with a team of programmers and help them to create his own chess playing software... it would get just as many machine cycles to work it's oblivious magic as the other "teams" software gets... guess who's software would ALWAYS win :-)

Computer programs don't really play chess... they just let the programmer/s play a better game of chess because the machine can run through everything the programmer knows about chess much faster than the programmer ever could.

It's like some lame comics programming a computer with every joke they could find and then claiming the program was a better stand-up comic than Seinfeld because it can rattle off more jokes and do it much faster and it even knows all of the same jokes that Seinfeld has ever told...
I suppose some people would fall for that too and think that the computer was a better comic :-/

Computer programs don't really play chess... they just let the programmer/s play a better game of chess because the machine can run through everything the programmer knows about chess much faster than the programmer ever could.

That is a bit of a gross simplification. The computational complexity of the basic problem is nasty enough that "fast" has very little to do with whether a chess game is good or not anymore. A computer that has a CPU that is twice as fast won't be twice as good at chess; the problem doesn't scale like that. You have to get all your mileage by having a good database, and more importantly, better software that has a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of the chess problem. Most of the work these days is on smarter software with a deeper understanding of the game patterns.