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 Kasparov & Deep Junior fight to 3-3 draw!
Deep Junior obliged and the game reached the diagrammed position after white 23.Nb3.
Fedorowicz was critical of this move, but the game start to look more and more drawish.
Kasparov has gone from the indomitable player who routinely grinds all human opposition to sawdust to a mortal of a chess player groveling for draws.
http://www.thechessdrum.net/tournaments/Kasparov-DeepJr   (1576 words)

  
 Xie Jun versus Deep Junior disput
Deep Junior won game three against FIDE Woman World Champion Xie Jue in the now-abandoned six-game challenge match that was been plagued by Internet connection problems from Shanghai since it began on March 8.
The 29-year-old Chinese champion Xie Jun is playing the first 4 games from Shanghai and the remainder from Beijing while Deep Junior, developed by Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky is playing all its games from his deluxe air-conditioned suite at the KasparovChess.com Herzlia offices in Israel.
It came as no surprise in game three that there were the usual ISP problems in Shanghai and yet again, the game started one and a half hours late.
http://www.chessbase.de/Nachrichten/xievsjunior.htm   (4220 words)

  
 New Scientist Breaking News - Kasparov flummoxes chess computer
Deep Junior never recovered from this early blow and the team behind the computer player resigned after 40 minutes of play.
When Kasparov lost to Deep Blue, he accused the Deep Blue team of fundamentally modifying their program between each game, making it effectively a different player each time.
Kasparov defeated his new opponent, Deep Junior, after apparently spotting a weakness in his opponent's "opening book", or repertoire of early moves.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3312   (449 words)

  
 Biography - Kasparov vs Deep Junior - Events - World Chess Network
Deep Junior has played many official games against the world's top human players, in regular tournaments as well as in exhibition matches.
In fact, Deep Junior often seemingly plays on a hunch … Its games are also highly respected for their entertaining and esthetic value.
In August 2000, its new parallel version, labeled Deep Junior, took part in the Super-Grandmaster tournament of Dortmund with the world's finest (except Kasparov) participatingand scoring 50 percent - a super performance (rating of 2703).
http://www.worldchessnetwork.com/English/events/KvsDJ/deepJr.php   (504 words)

  
 Kasparov, Deep Junior draw
Both players received a half-point for the game, leaving Kasparov with 1 point overall to Deep Junior's half-point.
Kasparov will be paid $500,000 by the federation, the international governing body of the game, for playing Deep Junior, which has not lost a match to a human opponent in two years.
After establishing a stalemate, or positions that would simply keep Kasparov and Deep Junior playing with no winner, the game was declared a draw.
http://www.rediff.com/sports/2003/jan/29kasp.htm   (272 words)

  
 New Scientist Breaking News - Drawn chess game lifts Kasparov
This forced Deep Junior to play a move not in its normal repertoire and spend 20 minutes considering its next position - an extremely long time for a computer player.
In that match Kasparov missed a relatively simple chance to draw the second game and was beaten.
This possible weakness may have been exposed in the first match when Kasparov played an unexpected move in the opening sequence.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3329   (439 words)

  
 Chess software - DEEP JUNIOR 7.0 for two or more processors
Junior's initial wins were not based on opening lines (except maybe game four).
Junior 7 plays this move within a few seconds, Junior 6 won't consider it in 30 minutes.
In many games it was about who has the more realistic evaluation.
http://www.chessbase.com/shop/product.asp?pid=93&user=   (2240 words)

  
 Deep Junior - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Deep Junior might play moves which are not objectively the strongest but that play more towards the weaknesses of the opponent.
It counts orthodox, ordinary moves as two moves, while an interesting move is one or even less.
Deep Junior won the World Computer Chess Championships in 2002 and 2004, organised by the International Computer Games Association.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Junior   (238 words)

  
 ChessBase.com - Chess News - Kasparov, Deep Junior draw game four
Junior did a little of both of these things from moves nine to 22, but most of the time it played competent, intelligent chess.
Junior does this so regularly, and so well, that game after game you can see that co-programmer Shay Bushinsky said quite a lot when he said in a press conference this week that the difference between Junior and other top programs was that Junior gave less importance to material.
Garry Kasparov brought Deep Junior into a closed, maneuvering position in game four.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=771   (1556 words)

  
 Game 5: Deep Junior holds Kasparov to draw
Deep Junior launches on an impulse attack to force a draw; Man and machine are tied at 2 and ½ points each now and the last game will be the decider.
The match is tied at 2-1/2 points each with everything to play for in Friday's final game of the contest billed the International Chess Federation's Man vs. Machine world championship.
Only 19 moves had been played in 90 minutes at the board.
http://www.ciol.com/content/news/repts/103020601.asp   (438 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Extra
The only exception is when Deep Blue showed a stroke of genius in one game (when I suspected certain interference).
Not only did they never go back, but they made it seem like there was no point in anyone ever going back.
Kasparov, the world's top-ranked chess player, is a contributing editor of The Wall Street Journal.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003081   (1058 words)

  
 Kasparov vs. Deep Junior - News
And in the regular computer world championships, and if Junior has to win it, and I also have to win the human championship, and if we both win, we will play next year.
Playing with the white pieces, the Azerbaijan-born Kasparov blundered with a rook move on his 32nd turn of the third game, allowing the machine to go two pawns up in material and establishing a winning endgame.
The six-game contest, with the games spread over 13 days and ending February 7, is sanctioned by the International Chess Federation, known by its acronym FIDE, and will be played under classical chess rules.
http://www.angelfire.com/fl5/human_fan02/k-vs-dj_news-stories.html   (2646 words)

  
 REBEL CENTURY vs DEEP BLUE JUNIOR
Because of the nature of the games (they should have given more information on Deep Blue's playing strength) in combination with the new information Rebel's author honored the wish of his colleague and made sure the games were removed from the Rebel Home Page.
The very same applies for the 3 blitz games CHESS-TIGER played against Deep Blue Junior.
We have made it explicitly clear, that it isn't allowed to play the program against other programs.
http://www.rebel.nl/reb-css.htm   (710 words)

  
 ChessBase.com - Chess News - Kasparov-Deep Junior draw after stunning sacrifice
The climax was reached on move 16, when it was becoming clear that Kasparov could allow a perpetual check draw or play a dangerous line and continue the game with his king in the center.
A stunned Kasparov found the best moves to survive the black attack and declined to play a risky attempt to continue the game on move 16.
Game five of the Kasparov-Deep Junior match was the shortest game so far, just 19 moves.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=777   (1364 words)

  
 Geek.com Geek News - Kasparov vs. Deep Junior: Second game is a draw
Maybe we will get a generation of programs which will be able to play 'like us' (meaning risky moves, blunders, sometime great moves, in short fun moves) and not only beat us with a flat equal game.
Currently Kasparov holds a one point lead over Deep Junior, and if he wins he will take home US$800,000.
People will rather have a bout in some mindless game on their PS2 og Xbox.
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Jan/wbc20030129018399.htm   (2902 words)

  
 Kasparov trashes Deep Junior in first chess match
DEEP JUNIOR was beaten by humanoid Garry Kasparov in the first of six chess games yesterday against the cyberplayer.
Fudo "R520" kicks Nvidia's butt in Quake 4
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7432   (248 words)

  
 Wired News: Kasparov, Computer Talk Smack
Kasparov is expected to battle like an elegant martial arts master, whereas Junior plays chess as if it's engaging in a street fight, Ban said.
If Kasparov plays a stealthy game, instead of a purely tactical one which Junior can easily recognize and counter, experts believe the human could humble the machine.
Kasparov said he can calculate the potential of about 3 moves per second at best, "but they are the best moves."
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57388,00.html   (747 words)

  
 Pejmanesque: "DEEP JUNIOR"
What really makes Junior a very special ‘opponent’ is the way it searches for the most daring moves on the board.
The program is incredibly strong in playing dynamic positions, which brings us to the following conclusion: those who strive on playing dynamic positions will find in Deep Junior a powerful tool in sharpening their attacking style while those who play static positions will hate to play against it!
So if you enjoy playing closed or semi-closed positions this program is one thing you should stay away from!
http://www.pejmanesque.com/archives/009468.html   (240 words)

  
 Garry Kasparov versus Deep Junior
It was an exciting match that brought world attention including CNN news overage and the final game had 3 hours of coverage on ESPN2 the first live televesion coverage of a chess game since the 1972 Fischer-Spassky match.
On this page I give anlaysis from the Chessbase web-site as well as extensive computer-assisted analysis of game 5 and 6.
Black is better but theres a long way to go
http://coxschess.tripod.com/gkdeepjr.html   (2277 words)

  
 cooltech.iafrica.com tech news Kasparov and Deep Junior draw
Deep Junior, on the other hand, is little bigger than a microwave and manages only a puny three million moves per second.
Bushinsky, meanwhile, played down fears that as computers become more sophisticated they would be able to easily dominate even the top human players.
The sixth and final game in the series ended in a draw after 27 moves, leaving both sides with three points each, having each won a game with three other matches drawn.
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/technews/208083.htm   (622 words)

  
 BBC NEWS Technology Kasparov draws against computer
Kasparov was also tied going into his final game with Deep Blue in 1997 - which he lost.
In the final game, Kasparov played himself into a superior position but offered a draw on the 23rd move, surprising chess experts.
The final game on Friday was a draw.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2739743.stm   (402 words)

  
 Garry Kasparov beats Deep Junior supercomputer
At age 12, he was the USSR Junior Champion; a Grandmaster at 17, and at 19 years old, he was regarded as the second strongest player in the world.
At 21, he played his first World Championship match against GM Anatoly Karpov, which ended when FIDE called off the match when neither player was able to achieve the required six victories after forty-eight games.
In February of 1996, Kasparov played a six game chess match against Deep Blue, a computer programmed by IBM.
http://www.hoise.com/primeur/03/articles/monthly/AE-PR-02-03-56.html   (411 words)

  
 CTV.ca Kasparov, Deep Junior chess match ends in draw
The players had been tied at 2½ games apiece going into the final contest.
Kasparov, 39, has held the world's No. 1 point-system ranking since 1984, despite occasional losses to humans and has achieved almost mythic status in the chess world.
Kasparov also was tied going into the last game of his match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in 1997.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1044744615286_205   (314 words)

  
 Kasparov to play Deep Junior at New York in January 2003
Two preliminary games will take place in Jerusalem from January 7-9, 2003 but the results won't be official, the federation, known as FIDE, said in a statement on Friday.
An agreement reached in May ended a feud that started in 1993 when Kasparov broke away from FIDE to form the Professional Chess Association.
Kasparov to play Deep Junior in New York
http://www.chathurangam.com/news/gkdj.asp   (292 words)

  
 Anand agrees to quick draw with Deep Junior 6
The black forces were confined to passivity but an attack against the weak queen knight pawn gave Barrev sufficient counterplay to steer the game to a draw after 29 moves.
Anand, with 4.5 points, shares lead with Vladimir Kramnik of Russia and Peter Leko of Hungary who also settled for a draw in their seventh round game among themselves.
DORTMUND, JULY 15: Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand played a quick draw with computer programme Deep Junior 6 to retain his joint lead after the seventh round of Dortmund Sparkassen chess tournament here on Saturday.
http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/20000716/isp16014.html   (465 words)

  
 Chessville - News - Kasparov vs Deep Junior - Round 1
Just after they were trying to explain that it's impossible for Black to defend e5 pawn and that Deep Junior (playing black in 1st game) can't really do any human-like sacrifices, Deep Junior makes an exchange sacrifice that made Ashley and Seirawan silent for about a minute.
There were many more interesting famous chess players and it would take another article to list them all.
That's just because he was way too happy he won the game.
http://www.chessville.com/News/Kasparov_v_Deep_Junior/Round_1.htm   (2292 words)

  
 Kasparov v Deep Junior Press Release
"Kasparov is the strongest player of all time and I think he learnt his lesson when he played against Deep Blue.
GM Peter Heine Nielsen, Denmark's strongest player, disagrees and has placed 200 Euros on Kasparov.
There will be markets available on all games and a LIVE winners market available throughout the duration of the match.
http://www.bcf.org.uk/national/2003/kasparov_deepjunior_pressJan03.htm   (275 words)

  
 Deep Junior holds Kasparov to a draw
Fudo "R520" kicks Nvidia's butt in Quake 4
Details of the whole shooting match are here: Game Two µ
In game two, reports the World Chess Federation, Deep Junior forced Kasparov to play the Sicilian Defence, Paulsen System, rather than his normal Najdorf.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7474   (202 words)

  
 Braingames Qualifier 2001
Junior launches a mating attack that wins a bishop.
A fascinating match that produced some good chess - although secrifices were as rare as cock's eggs.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1002989   (119 words)

  
 Wired News: Of Pawns, Knights, Bits, Bytes
In a highly publicized tournament in 1997, IBM's Deep Blue -- a massively parallel, custom supercomputer that calculated 200 million moves a second -- beat the chess master by one game in the six-match tournament.
On Sunday, the world's No. 1-ranked chess player will begin a tournament against the world's best chess program -- and it's the first human/computer chess match sanctioned by the world's leading chess body.
In 1997 (against Deep Blue), I personally believe he was the better player but in a six-game match, anything can happen.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57345,00.html   (821 words)

  
 Kasparov vs Deep Junior
The 6 games match were played over a two-week period beginning Jan.
Kasparov is regarded as the greatest player in history and Deep Junior -- which hasn't lost to a human in two years -- is billed as the world Champion Computer.
Chess legend Gary Kasparov, matched wits with the Israeli-programmed computer Deep Junior, a three-time world Champion, which won the last official world Chess Championship for computers in July 2002, in Maastricht, Netherlands against 18 other machines.
http://www.chess-poster.com/great_games/Kasparov_DeepJunior/kasparov_deepjr.htm   (86 words)

  
 Deep Fritz (Computer) vs Deep Junior (Computer) (2001)
If a human had played black it would be ranked as one of the best games ever.
Deep Fritz (Computer) vs Deep Junior (Computer) (2001)
: It looks that from the 50th move, deep junior became very angry : invincible.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1220621   (399 words)

  
 Deep Junior 8
You also get the latest interface, which allows you to play on beautifully rendered 3D boards, as well as the latest openings book as written by Kasparov’s former second, GM Boris Alterman, and a 500,000 game database.
It’s not often that a single move rocks the chess world as much as Deep Junior’s 10...Bxh2!
With this version of Deep Junior, you get two engines - the one which played in the Kasparov match, and a more recent version which was developed further still after the dust had settled.
http://www.chess.co.uk/shop/item3487.htm   (165 words)

  
 Kasparov vs Deep Junior
Alternativly, the PGN of the games can be downloaded here:
There are various news items on the Kasparov Deep Junior Match:
http://www.balterman.freeservers.com/kasparovjunior.html   (50 words)

  
 Kasparov vs Deep Junior - Events - World Chess Network
WCN will carry the match live beginning January 26, 2003, complete with commentary from some of the world’s top players.
A quick yet volatile draw in game 5 appears to leave Deep Junior in the
New York will be the backdrop of the biggest man versus machine chess match since Deep Blue defeated GM Kasparov in May of 1997.
http://www.worldchessnetwork.com/English/events/KvsDJ/KvsDJ-030126.php   (358 words)

  
 Deep Junior (chess) timeline
no-date: Shay Bushinsky plays "fourth board at the Israeli junior team" [cite] rated 1900?
Alterman: "Shay and other programmers checked the games by Deep Blue on their engines.
1996: Apr: Junior (on Digital AlphaStation 600) loses to Judith Polgar [games]
http://www.robotwisdom.com/ai/deepjunior.html   (764 words)

  
 Deep Fritz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In November of 2003, a version of Deep Fritz running with 3D software, X3D Fritz, played a four game match against Kasparov, the highest rated player at the time.
As of October 2002, Deep Fritz is believed to be the most powerful computer chess program in the world, defeating Deep Junior, another powerful computer chess program, in a run-off.
Whilst it lacks the special-purpose hardware of Deep Blue and consequently can evaluate far fewer positions in a given amount of time, the designers and Vladimir Kramnik, in pre-match interviews, both regarded it as a stronger player.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Fritz   (252 words)

  
 IBM Research Deep Blue Overview
Deep Blue is the system which successfully played against Chess Grand Master Garry Kasparov in early 1996.
Using its 512 chips, Deep Blue examines and evaluates chess positions at a high rate of speed -- at an average of 200 million chess positions per second.
has tested to be far superior than most other chess computers, with the exception of Deep Blue.
http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/press/html/g.6.4.html   (270 words)

  
 ExtremeTech: Kasparov, "Deep Junior" Match Ends In Draw
Kasparov, who both defeated and lost to Deep Blue in 1996 and 1997, was "spooked" by the computer opponent, according to American grandmaster Maurice Ashley, who analyzed the game for ESPN2.
The deciding chess match between human champion Garry Kasparov and computer champion Deep Junior ended in an agreed-upon draw, meaning that the series ended tied at three games apiece.
Both players sacrified their queens early, but Kasparov deliberated over a simple sacrifice exchange later in the match, which baffled analysts.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdext/is_200302/ai_ziff36746   (227 words)

  
 Game 4: Kasparov barely survives against Deep Junior
After a devastating loss in Game 3, Garry Kasparov tried a new plan in Game 4.
Here are some media commentaries on the 1997 Kasparov - Deep Blue chess match:
One day after its chess computer defeated Garry Kasparov, IBM stock surged to a 10-year high
http://www.ishipress.com/manmach4.htm   (761 words)

  
 Telecomworldwire: Kasparov to play against Deep Junior - Brief Article
Chess player Kasparov will be set against computer program Deep Junior in the 'Man vs Machine The Sequel' chess competition in Jerusalem.
Deep Junior - which has not lost a match in two years, and most recently won the 7th Computer Chess Olympiad in Maastricht - was designed by Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky.
Kasparov played against IBM's Beep Blue in 1996, a competition he won, then again in 1997 where he lost.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ECZ/is_2002_August_9/ai_90271166   (226 words)

  
 ChessBase.com - Chess News - Kasparov vs Deep Junior postponed
The match has a prize fund of one million dollars and is auspiced by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) and the International Computer Games Association (ICGA).
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov announced on Monday that the human-machine chess match between world number one Garry Kasparov and world computer champion Deep Junior had been postponed until December 1, 2002.
"The whole world will be watching and we want people to see Jerusalem host a world-class event between two great champions." After Deep Junior won the World Computer Chess Championships in the Netherlands little time remained to complete the negotiations and organize the match before the starting date.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsprint.asp?newsid=512   (451 words)

  
 Kasparov, computer to square off Tech News on ZDNet
The program, winner of the 7th Computer Chess Olympiad in Maastricht, Netherlands in July, hasn't lost a game to a human opponent in two years.
"This momentous match will test the latest advances in artificial intelligence by pitting the world's number one human chess player, Garry Kasparov, against the reigning World Computer Chess Champion program, Junior," David Levy, president of the International Computer Games Association (ICGA), said in a statement.
Kasparov's matches with IBM's Deep Blue computer gained widespread attention in 1996, when he won, and then again in 1997, when he lost.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-948930.html   (460 words)

  
 The chess games of Deep Fritz (Computer)
: What a great game Alterman - Deep Fritz!!
: He won one and got quite a few draws which is VERY impressive in a clock simul against ten modern computer programs.Also see Alterman vs Deep Fritz where he absolutely dismantles the machine in a positional game famous for the Alterman wall(all pawns on 4th rank at one stage).
Both are machines that simulate usually human behaviors and one is deep while the other is shallow.
http://www.chessgames.com/player/deep_fritz.html   (614 words)

  
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 GARRY KASPAROV VS DEEP JUNIOR
Pero está claro que un evento de estas características, con un presupuesto tan alto y unos problemas de logística e infraestructura tan enormes, tiene que plegarse a las necesidades y a los tempos de los patrocinadores, ya que de otra manera no sería posible su puesta en escena.
Antes las dudas que afloraron tanto en su último enfrentamiento con Deeper Blue, como las que posteriormente surgieron con el match previo de su colega, pienso o quiero creer que el gran Gary va a tratar de despejarlas con un juego valiente, pero prudente, agresivo y a la vez elegante y espectacular.
Frente al Deep Junior está claro que va a arriesgar cuando deba, ya que no hacerlo iría contra sus instintos más primarios, y dado que el estilo del programa va en esa línea, esperemos ver una lucha emocionante.
http://www.jaque.tv/kj_avance03.htm   (1089 words)

  
 Amir Ban - Deep Junior 7.0 - Update deutsche Version: 66,5 Euro - Schachprogramm - Schach Niggemann
Nachdem das Programm von Amir Ban bereits beim letzten GM-Turnier in Dortmund als offizieller Teilnehmer mitwirken und 50% gegen die Weltelite unter regulären Turnierbedingungen erreichte, lieferte das Qualifikationsturnier in Cadaques erneut den Beleg für seine enorme Spielstärke.
Von Amir Ban wurde seinerzeit in Kooperation mit ChessBase die erste Parallelversion eines kommerziellen Schachprogramms veröffentlicht.
Seit Shredder 5.32 und jetzt auch mit Junior 7 wurde die Namensgebung, also der Start der Benutzerschnittstelle, vereinheitlicht.
http://www.schachversand.de/software/370.html   (1780 words)

  
 Garry Kasparov - DEEP JUNIOR, X3D Man-Machine match 2003
Garry Kasparov - DEEP JUNIOR, X3D Man-Machine match 2003
http://www.thechessdrum.net/palview/Kasparov-DeepJr5.htm   (9 words)

  
 Kasparov G. - DEEP JUNIOR, FIDE Man-Machine WC 2003
Kasparov G. - DEEP JUNIOR, FIDE Man-Machine WC 2003
http://www.thechessdrum.net/palview/Kasparov-DeepJr3.htm   (9 words)

  
 Kasparov y Deep Junior llegan empatados a la partida final
Kasparov perdió una célebre serie con la supercomputadora de IBM Deep Blue hace seis años en una situación idéntica a la del este momento.
Kasparov y Deep Junior llegan empatados a la partida final
Deep Junior no dejó pasar la oportunidad, algo poco común para una computadora, que generalmente elige sus jugadas basándose en un cálculo concreto.
http://www.elmundo.es/navegante/2003/02/06/esociedad/1044521933.html   (353 words)

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