Game SIX (#6) (is) was slated for Friday, February 07th, 2003.
(Approximately 3:30 PM; Eastern Time - - the first game started a
little late.)
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.
(From the ChessBase web
site.)
*** (I
recorded the entire above broadcast, and I hope to later provide a
blow-by-blow of some of the better
comments and observations of such luminaries as
the better comments
and observations of such luminaries
as: GM
Yasser Seirawan
and GM
Maurice Ashley.) |
Deep_Junior
(Computer) (2633) -
GM Garry Kasparov
(2847)
[B20]
X3D "Man vs. Machine" Match
New York City, NY; [USA]
(Round/game # 6) 07.02.2003
(At
this point the match is tied, Kasparov needs a win to really impress.)
1.e4 c5; 2.Nf3 d6; 3.d4 cxd4; 4.Nxd4 Nf6; 5.Nc3 a6;
{Diagram?}
Although Garry played a Sicilian in all three games where he championed
the Black
pieces, this is his very first use of the Najdorf Defense. (In this match.)
All the commentators were predicting a sharp game.
6.Be2 e5; ('!?')
{Diagram?}
The first ever use of the Boleslavsky-type move here by Garry, at least
according to
expert commentator, 4-time U.S. Champion, GM Yasser Seirawan.
(I think Yaz was mistaken.)
Was this prepared in advance? (I think it was.)
According to ChessBase's on-line database, this has been played
over 1000 times
at the master level. (A NIC CD-ROM gives almost 7,000 examples of this
opening.)
7.Nb3 Be7; 8.0-0 0-0; 9.Kh1 Bd7; ('!?')
{Diagram?}
Kasparov finds an ingenious way to get the computer out of book - or at
least avoid
the bulk of the Deep Junior team's preparation.
10.Be3!? Bc6; 11.Bf3 Nbd7;
{Diagram?}
The commentators were already saying here that Black was for choice - - -
in this position. (That was a little much.)
White's play has not given him an edge, he is dangerously close
to handing the
initiative over to Black.
12.a4 b6; 13.Qd3 Bb7; 14.h3 Rc8;
15.Rad1 h6; 16.Rfe1 Qc7;
17.g3 Rfd8; 18.Kh2 Re8!?; {Diagram?}
It is hard to say exactly what this move accomplishes.
(Rope-a-dope?)
(All the commentators liked the idea of ...Qb8 here.)
19.Re2 Qc4; {Diagram?}
Black exchanges the Queens, the advantage is definitely to the
second
player in this position.
20.Qxc4 Rxc4; 21.Nd2 Rc7; 22.Bg2
Rec8;
23.Nb3 Rxc3!!; {Diagram?}
A nice sacrifice which comes very near to winning the game for
Black.
This is a stock sacrifice for a human, but computers still don't
conceptualize
well with just very broad, vague and very general ideas.
According to the commentators, Kasparov actually offered a draw
here.
24.bxc3 Bxe4; 25.Bc1! Bxg2; 26.Kxg2 Rxc3;
('!?)
{Diagram?}
I am not sure about this move, 26...d5; might have been a fuzz
better.
27.Ba3 Ne8; 28.f4, (Maybe - '!') {Diagram?}
This is very good, probably a lot better than many of the people
commenting
on this game originally realized. White opens lines for his Rook(s), and
also
threatens to isolate the Black QP.
Here (apparently) the Deep Junior team offered a draw ...
which Kasparov immediately accepted.
Draw agreed, ½ - ½.
Click HERE
to see my re-play page. (No annotations.)
Click HERE
to see my annotations of this game.
My take on this game? I
watched this game LIVE on TV, (See the box, above.); and I also dialed
in Chess.FM and monitored the game on ICC. It was very exciting.
Kasparov was Black, and played the Najdorf Variation, for the first time
in this match. The machine, (and its team who prepared it); ducked the
sharpest lines, preferring to use Be2 instead of the more complicated
lines that follow Bg5. Deep
Junior - once again - played the opening in a nearly pathetic manner,
giving Garry many chances. Garry himself avoided some the sharpest
lines, preferring to continue to maneuver on his 18th move. The computer
played many weird and seemingly random moves. (Kh1, h3, Bf3, and a later
g3, N/b3-d2 and then back to b3.) While not causing the computer's
position to immediately fall apart, these moves were hardly impressive.
Eventually Kasparov - perhaps emboldened by the computer's seeming waste
of time - decides to cash in his chips and sacrifice on c3. Then - if
the reports are to be believed - he immediately offered a draw ... which
was rejected by the Deep Junior Team!! GM
Lev Alburt said Garry had "No losing possibilities. He said there
was a 50% chance that Garry would win, and another 50% chance Garry
would draw." The
contestants played on for several more moves, and just when it looked
like Garry would run away with the game ... they shook hands and called
it a draw. In
the post game conference, Garry confirmed what GM M. Ashley had been
saying all day, that Kasparov had been spooked, and was just too nervous
to play. Garry also admitted that he had overlooked the maneuver Bishop
at e3 to c1! (Intending Ba3.) He said that after this oversight, he had
lost confidence in his position. (My computer analysis after f4
indicates the game is probably equal anyway.) To
all the commentators who were calling Garry chicken, I want to point out
it is very easy to be an armchair quarterback, but it is a different
story altogether to be on the field and looking at some big monster -
who runs as fast as you do - getting ready to 'pile-drive' you into the
earth. It would also have cost Garry a quarter of a million dollars,
(the difference between a win and a loss); to play on and possibly
lose. |
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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.
(From
the ChessBase
web site.) |
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