Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes
Date: 11:44:09 02/14/03
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A49587-2003Feb9?language=printer Garry Kasparov and Deep Junior played to a 3-3 tie last Friday at the New York Athletic Club. The $1 million "Man vs. Machine" match was a great show, generating lots of publicity. Millions of chess fans watched it on the Internet and the last game appeared on ESPN. This time was different from his match against Deep Blue in 1997; Kasparov did not lose and the human race was saved. But he did not win either. Almost predictably, the New York match followed the same script as the match of Vladimir Kramnik against the Dutch-German computer program Deep Fritz last October in Bahrain: first the machine loses badly, then the human player makes mistakes and with the score tied, both contestants coast happily together to the finish line. Some spectators in New York were not happy with the outcome of the last two drawn games. It seemed to them that both sides only pretended to fight. They even booed at the end of Game 6. However, the short draw in the Nimzo-Indian defense in Game 5 was a different story and Kasparov was blamed unjustly. The only question was: Why did he allow the classic bishop sacrifice?
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