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| Chess by Malcolm Pein of the Daily Telegraph   Malcolm Pein writes for the Daily Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk)
you can read his chess columns along with those of Nigel Short and David
Norwood at their new
Chess
Club (to read the columns you need to register which is free). A third successive Man v Machine contest ended level after Garry Kasparov held FritzX3D to a draw in the fourth match game held at the New York Athletic Club. The final score was 2-2 and Kasparov won $175,000 courtesy of match sponsors X3D. Kasparov drew 2-2 with Deep Junior in February and Vladimir Kramnik tied 3-3 with Deep Fritz in Bahrain a year ago. The most remarkable aspect of this match was that Kasparov played the machine in virtual reality, donning a pair of special glasses that enabled him to view a three dimensional image of the chessboard projected out of a specially designed computer developed by X3D. The world number one did not touch the chess pieces and instead called out his moves to a piece of voice recognition software which then sent them to Fritz. Kasparov probably had the edge in this match, he was somewhat better in the first game, needlessly lost the second with a blunder from a level position and strangled the machine in Sunday's third game. The fourth encounter was a fairly quiet affair and a dead drawn position with just queen, rook and two pawns each was reached after twenty seven moves. The game briefly threatened to become quite sharp when the computer produced some opening moves played by Kramnik against Kasparov in their Blitz match held in 2001. In that game Kasparov sacrificed his queen and outplayed the world champion quite convincingly. However, sacrificing the queen to produce an unclear position is exactly what a human player should not do against a computer. Kasparov chose a quieter line, which led to exchanges. Match summary: Game 1: Kasparov draw FritzX3D, Slav Defence, 37 moves;Game 2: FritzX3D 1-0 Kasparov, Ruy Lopez, 39 moves; Game 3: Kasparov 1-0 FritzX3D, Slav Defence, 45; Game 4: FritzX3D draw Kasparov, Queen's Gambit Accepted, 27; X3D FRITZ - Kasparov,G (2830) [D27] X3D Match New York USA (4), 18.11.2003 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 e6 4.e3 Nf6 5.Bxc4 c5 6.0-0 a6 7.Bb3 cxd4 8.exd4 Nc6 9.Nc3 Be7 10.Re1 0-0 11.Bf4 Na5 12.d5 Nxb3 13.Qxb3 exd5 [ 13...Nxd5 14.Rad1 Nxf4 15.Rxd8 Rxd8 16.Rd1 Nd5 17.Ne5 Bf6 18.Nc4 Rb8 19.Na5 Bd7 20.Ne4 Be7 21.Nc4 Bb5 22.Ne5 Be8 23.h3 b5 24.Qg3 Rbc8 25.Kh1 a5 26.h4 a4 27.Ng5 h6 28.Ngf3 Nf6 29.Rxd8 Rxd8 30.Qf4 Rd1+ 31.Kh2 Bd6 32.g3 Bc6 33.g4 Rd3 34.Kg1 Bxf3 0-1 Kramnik,V-Kasparov,G/Moscow RUS 2001/The Week in Chess 370 (34).] 14.Rad1 Be6 15.Qxb7 Bd6 [ 15...Bc5 16.Be5 Qa5 17.Nd4 Bxd4 18.Rxd4 Nd7 19.Bd6 Nc5 20.Qc7 Qxc7 21.Bxc7 Rfc8 22.Bg3 Ne4 23.Nxd5 Bxd5 24.Rxd5 Nxg3 25.hxg3 Rc2 26.Red1 g6 27.R1d2 Rc1+ 28.Kh2 h5 29.g4 h4 30.g5 Kg7 31.R5d4 Rc5 32.Rxh4 Rxg5 33.Rf4 Ra7 34.g3 a5 35.Rfd4 Rb5 36.b3 Rc5 37.Kg2 Rb7 38.Rd5 Rxd5 39.Rxd5 a4 40.Rd3 axb3 41.axb3 Kf6 42.Kf3 Ke5 43.Ke3 g5 44.Kd2 Ke4 45.f3+ Ke5 46.Re3+ Kd5 47.Kc2 f5 48.f4 gxf4 49.gxf4 Kd4 50.Re5 Rc7+ 51.Kb2 Rf7 52.b4 Kc4 53.Ka3 Rf6 54.Rc5+ Kd4 55.Re5 Kc4 56.Rc5+ Kd4 57.Kb3 Ke3 58.Rc4 Rb6 59.Ka4 Kd3 60.Kb3 Ke3 61.Ka4 Kd3 62.Rc5 Ke4 63.Ka5 Rb8 64.Rc4+ Kd3 65.Rc1 Ke3 66.Rf1 Ke2 67.Rc1 Ke3 68.Rf1 Ke2 69.Rb1 Ke3 70.b5 Kxf4 71.b6 Ke3 72.Rb3+ Ke4 73.Ka6 f4 74.Ka7 Rf8 75.Rb4+ Ke3 76.b7 f3 1/2-1/2 Kramnik,V-Anand,V/Monte Carlo 2001.] 16.Bg5 Rb8 17.Qxa6 Rxb2 18.Bxf6 Qxf6 19.Qxd6 Qxc3 20.Nd4 Rxa2 21.Nxe6 fxe6 22.Qxe6+ Kh8 23.Rf1 Qc5 24.Qxd5 Rfxf2 25.Rxf2 Qxf2+ 26.Kh1 h6 27.Qd8+ Kh7  1/2-1/2 |
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