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Müller and Ban
11.02.2003
– New York, Man vs Machine, Kasparov faces Deep Junior. The match is over, but
the subject will be with us for a while. Here are two comprehensive retrospects
of all six games, one by Amir Ban,
author of Deep Junior, who sat across from Kasparov in three games; and the
second by GM Karsten Müller,
who did live commentary on the Playchess.com
server.
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Kasparov in CNN – it's intuition vs brute force
10.02.2003
– Soon after his match against the computer in New York Garry Kasparov was on
CNN (which called him the Michael Jordan or Wayne Gretzky of chess) talking about
his opponent Deep Junior, the distractions and stresses of the match, why the
public are fascinated by it, and how the man vs machine battle will continue.
Here's a full
transcript of the CNN interview.
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Who has won the prizes?
09.02.2003
– In the past month we had two competitions, with valuable prizes to win. First
the Christmas Puzzle
Contest, after that the Wijk
aan Zee quiz. The answers to the latter have been submitted.
The former was supposed to close on January 31, but due to the general preoccupation
with the man vs machine event in New York we have extended the submission date
to February 28, which means you still have a
chance to take part! The prize winners of both contests will be announced
in the first weeks of March.
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New York in the News
09.02.2003
– The weekend editions of the broadsheets and the Internet news portals have lively stories on the Man vs Machine event between Garry Kasparov and
Deep Junior. There are reports in the New York Times (free registration
required), Wired Magazine and CNN. We have a small selection of the most interesting
articles on our Man
vs Machine media page.
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Aeroflot Open in Moscow
08.02.2003
– At last it's here, the tournament we have all been waiting for. The grand Aeroflot Open took to the air with a press conference in the Chess House in Moscow. At it we got to see the main protagonists in the largest open tournament in the world. Also the main sponsors, the press chief and two world champions. Here's an illustrated pretrournament
report by Eugeny Atarov.
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Kasparov vs Deep Junior ends in 3-3 draw
08.02.2003
– The final game of the epic Man vs Machine match between Garry Kasparov and Deep Junior ended today in a 3-3 tie. With millions of TV viewers watching Kasparov came out fighting, but with the black pieces he was unable to gain enough to secure a clear win. Here is a
short report and the game.
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DJ Kasparov
07.02.2003
– It's not news, it's Fark! That the motto of this news enterntainment site which
has staged a "Photoshop
contest of Kasparov losing to Deep Junior". Some of the results are
quite hilarious, though there are so many submissions it's hard to enjoy them
all. A better way is to scan just the
top entries, which includes the DJ picture in our thumbnail.
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Kasparov vs Deep Junior live in ESPN
06.02.2003
– The cable sports network is going to provide live
coverage of the sixth game of the Kasparov-Deep Junior match on
Friday! They are sending a crew to the New York Athletic Club to transmit the
game. This is a big first and the first live national TV coverage of a chess
event since Fischer-Spassky. In 1995, ESPN broadcast packaged spots on the Kasparov-Anand match,
but they were produced by the PCA. This time around ESPN itself is footing the
substantial bill.
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Sergey Karjakin (13) beats women's vice champion
06.02.2003
– The Dannemann
match between world women's vice champion Alexandra Kosteniuk (18) and GM Sergey
Karjakin (13) ended in a 4:2 victory for the Unkrainian chess prodigy. The games,
played in the spectacular surrioundings of the Swiss Alps, was covered live
with the help of our ChessBase Flash program. We bring you all six games annotated
by experts. You will find these and some new pictures
here.
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Training: g4 in closed openings
06.02.2003
– The attacking move g2-g4 is a typical motif in the Sicilian. In closed openings,
however, it does not occur so often. In his session tonight, GM Dorian Rogozenko
shows the ideas and history of this move which just a few days ago was used
twice by Kasparov in his match against Deep Junior. The training is free of
charge and begins at 21.00 CET, on our server at
playchess.com.
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Kasparov-Deep Junior draw after stunning sacrifice
06.02.2003
– Garry Kasparov was determined to win his last white game against the computer. But on move ten Deep Junior produced a stunning piece sacrifice that left its opponent reeling. It's unclear if the combination was sound, but Kasparov was not going to risk testing it over the board. He quickly forced a draw by repetition to keep the score level at 2½:2½. Read our
illustrated report.
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Garry Kasparov may not realize it yet, but he's doomed
05.02.2003
– Well that's what the Chicago Tribune thinks, in the long run anyway. The boadsheets are full
of the match between Kasparov and Deep Junior. As well as about Bobby Fischer's baby
girl, and ex FIDE president Florencio Campomanes' sentence by a Filipino court. There's a short selection of articles on our Man
vs Machine media page.
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