January 26, 2003
FORGET SERENA:
'Aggressive' Kasparov outplays computer (ABCNews.com, 1/26/03)World number one chess player Garry Kasparov has crushed the champion computer program Deep Junior in his trademark aggressive style.Kasparov won the first game of the six-game "Man vs Machine" match in New York.
The Azerbaijan-born grandmaster took his first step toward burying the ghost of 1997, when he lost a match to the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue, with a convincing win in just 27 moves and 3 hours 40 minutes play. Kasparov scored a point for the victory over Israeli-built Deep Junior and the second game is scheduled for tomorrow.
US grandmaster Maurice Ashley, one of the experts providing commentary for spectators at the New York Athletic Club, said: "Garry played dominating chess, great open play, aggressive, just like the Kasparov we know well."
Kasparov, 39, playing with the white pieces and the slight advantage of the first move, eschewed the cautious "anti-computer" strategy he used six years ago against Deep Blue for more adventurous moves.
Rage against the machine, baby.
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Chess Champion Faces Off With New Computer (PAUL HOFFMAN, 1/26/03, NY Times)
Chess Base
Kasparov, Computer Talk Smack (Michelle Delio, Wired News)
It doesn't matter if Deep Blue can beat Kasparov. He can already beat you.
Posted by: Noel Erinjeri at January 27, 2003 12:50 AMLike I've said before Man the chess-player vs Man the tool-maker.
We win either way.
Although I will be impressed if they ever come up with a computer which can play a decent game of Go.
Yup, Kaspy made DJ look stupid after about 15 moves. But let's not forget that in Kasparov-Deep Blue 2 and Kramnik-Fritz the human got out to an early lead. Then fatigue set in, and the computers caught up ...
Posted by: Bruce Cleaver at January 27, 2003 6:43 AMNoel:
Not if I unplug him.
Bruce:
Which, in a bitter irony, is how Kasparov held off defeat in his title match against Karpov.