[mrgoldenbrown]

This is already a thing - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Computer_Chess_Championsh...

It's enough of a thing that there was drama and accusations of cheating/plagiarism a few years back http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rybka#WCCC_disqualification_and...

[mbatanian]

There's also a (fictional) movie about this that's pretty interesting; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2007360/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1