BBC (Tuesday): Kasparov-X3D Fritz chess battle ends in draw

[Jack Rabbit]

From the BBC Online
Dated Tuesday November 18 20:53 GMT (12:53 pm PST)

Virtual chess battle ends in draw

pitting chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov against a computer has ended in a draw.
Kasparov drew the fourth and final game of the Man v Machine clash in New York, leaving himself and the computer with an overall score of two points each.

Kasparov tied his first game against the X3D Fritz computer programme, lost the second, and won the third.

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Link to the match site.

[mmm]

1. Deep Fritz!

Good to see it ended in a draw.
Better to see that he beat the machine once.
Amazing.

[denverbill]

2. Absolutely. I don't know how a human can win.

It's just incomprehensible to me to be able to think that many moves ahead.

I had a computer chess game you could set to think so many moves ahead. I could beat it, occasionally, on the first level, but never beyond that. And that toy was nowhere NEAR as powerful.

[Davis_X_Machina]

3. K blundered in #2 -- he perhaps....

...could even have made a plus score against the machine.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. Game Two

It was quite a blunder.



In this position, Kasparov (Black) played 32 -- Rg7??. White correctly followed with 33 Rxe5!! dxe5 34 Qxf8, winning a critical pawn. Kasparov then committed a second blunder with 34 -- Nd4? and White opened up a e-file with 35 Bxd4 exd4 Kasparov resigned after 36 Re8 Rg8 37 Qe7+ Rg7 38 Qd8 Rg8 39 Qd7+

Diagram from Kasparov vs. X3D Fritz

[TexasMexican]

5. I watched it

On ESPN2.

I like to play chess from time to time, and found it interesting that they were televising the game.