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Live coverage from New York and Switzerland
05.02.2003
– On Wednesday and Thursday at 14:00 h CET young stars Alexandra Kosteniuk
and Sergey Karjakin play each other in the Centro
Dannemann on the banks of the Lago Maggiore in Switzerland. On Wednesday
and Friday at 3:30 p.m. local time (21:30 CET) Garry Kasparov plays his last
two games against Deep Junior in New York. You can follow the action on our
live
Flash coverage or discuss it with chess experts on the Playchess.com
server.
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Are humans getting smarter or computers stupider?
04.02.2003
– He is the inventor of optical character recognition, print-to-speech reading
machines for the blind, CCD flat-bed scanners, a music synthesizer, and large-vocabulary
speech recognition. So when Ray
Kurzweil writes about chess you sit up and take note. "Deep
Fritz-like chess programs running on ordinary personal computers will routinely
defeat all humans later in this decade," he says. "Then we'll really
lose interest in chess." Here's the article.
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It's up to you, New York, New York
04.02.2003
– We've been here for a little over a week now, taking part in a gigantic event that is drawing world-wide attention. But just as overwhelming as the battle between man and machine that is being currently staged in New York is the town itself. Thank heavens there are moments of peace, islands of calm, and a lot of pleasant people to ease the tension. See it all unfold in Frederic Friedel's latest
New York picture gallery.
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What it is like to face Garry Kasparov
03.02.2003
– Amir Ban
is one of the authors of the world champion program Deep
Junior, which is playing Garry Kasparov in New York. In every second game
Amir sits across the table from Kasparov. The Israeli also has to
look after the program between the rounds. In three annotated games Amir Ban
tells us what it is like to face the
strongest player of all time.
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Kasparov, Deep Junior draw game four
03.02.2003
– After two rest days and a devastating loss Garry Kasparov withstood considerable pressure to salvage a draw. In front of a packed audience commentators Ashley, Seirawan, Benjamin, Jennifer and Greg Shahade (picture) and Susan Polgar confessed that they had no idea what was going on. More in our
illustrated round four report.
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Minimum age requirement for Kosteniuk vs Karjakin
02.02.2003
– The Dannemann
match between Alexandra Kosteniuk (18) and Sergey Karjakin (13) is taking place
against the spectacular backdrop of Lake Ascona. There is live
coverage at the sponsor's site, but beware: you have to be at least 21 to enter.
Because of the tobacco, of course what did you think? Some annotators
are suggesting there should be an age minimum for what the two are playing.
Curious?
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Live coverage Man vs. machine game four
02.02.2003
– With the score tied at 1.5:1.5 a deeply dissatisfied Garry Kasparov (he could
have easily been leading 2:1 or more) goes into game four with the black pieces.
This is going to be a key game either Kasparov will consolidate with
a solid draw, or he'll go for the explosive all or nothing. Live
coverage is available on many sites, live discussion with GMs at
Playchess.com.
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When Alexandra (18) met Sergey (13)
02.02.2003
– From Feb 1 to 6 the Swiss tobacco company Dannemann
is staging a match between women's world vice champion Alexandra Kosteniuk and
the youngest grandmaster ever Sergey Karjakin, who turned 13 some weeks ago.
You can follow the live games here
(click "Live Übertragung") or check out pictures of Alexandra
frolicking
in the Swiss snow. The first game ended in a draw.
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Hiarcs and Bareev draw all four games
02.02.2003
– The "other" man
vs machine match between Hiarcs
and world class GM Evgeny Bareev ended in a 2:2 draw. In the last
game the English program was
displaying a 0.80 advantage. It was amazing that Bareev found a way out
of the complicated position", said Mark Uniacke, the author of Hiarcs. The games are to be found on the official
website.
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Deep Junior strikes back
30.01.2003
– Actually it was Garry Kasparov, who was dominating during most of the game. Then he let his advange slip, and just when he had resigned himself to accepting a draw he overlooked a sharp continuation which handed the game to his opponent. With this surprise victory Deep Junior has equalised and filled the entire match with new tension. How did it all happen? Here's a full illustrated
report on game three.
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A Grandmaster Word Processor Comes of Age
30.01.2003
– So how strong is Deep Junior, anyway? Is it a 3000 monster of which human Grandmasters
must live in fear? Or is it a 2400 video game that sits and waits for humans
to blunder? So far Junior's play has been almost completely indistinguishable
from that of a human master. More from inside the Kasparov-Junior match after
two games in New York in Mig
on Chess #185.
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