UNITED STATES: CHESS CHAMPION GARRY KASPAROV ACCEPTS THIRD CONSECUTIVE DRAW IN MATCH AGAINST COMPUTER DEEP BLUE

Record ID: 337557

  • Title: UNITED STATES: CHESS CHAMPION GARRY KASPAROV ACCEPTS THIRD CONSECUTIVE DRAW IN MATCH AGAINST COMPUTER DEEP BLUE
  • Date: 10th May 1997
  • Summary: NEW YORK CITY, U.S. (MAY 10, 1997) (RTV) (POOL) (RTV) 1. GARRY KASPAROV ENTERS CHESS GAME VENUE AND GREETS IBM DEEP BLUE OPERATOR. 2. PRESS CUTAWAY. 3. KASPAROV MAKES HIS FIRST MOVE; IBM OPERATOR MAKES MOVE FOR DEEP BLUE. 4. ARTHUR BIGUIER, GRAND MASTER AND FORMER U.S. CHAMPION (1954-1957; LOST TO BOBBY FISHER), SAYING, "NO MATTER W
  • Embargoed: 25th May 1997 13:00
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  • Location: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
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  • Country: USA
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  • Story Text: The chess-playing supercomputer Deep Blue dug deeper into its database on Saturday (May 10) to push world chess champion Garry Kasparov into accepting the third consecutive draw of their absorbing $1.1 million (US dollars) re-match in New York.

    The draw after 49 moves and more than four hours of exciting, nerve-jangling chess kept the six-game match tied after five games.

    Both players have 2-1/2 points after one win each and three draws.

    Game three on Tuesday and game four on Wednesday were also drawn.

    Kasparov received several minutes of sustained applause and cheers from a standing-room only crowd of spectators as he appeared on stage in the auditorium of the Manhattan office complex where the games are taking place.

    "There are very many discoveries in this match and one of them is that sometimes the computer plays very human moves," Kasparov said. "In a way I have to praise the machine for understanding very deeply positional factors. I think it is an outstanding scientific achievement." Until now, chess-playing computers have favoured open, tactical battles where their massive calculating powers give them the advantage over human opponents. Deep Blue has shown in this match, which started a week ago, that it "understands" positional concepts.

    Kasparov's computer advisor Frederic Friedel said that Kasparov is playing "defensive chess," because his usual "flashy dangerous attacking style" is not the best tactic to use against Deep Blue.

    The sixth and final game of the match is scheduled for Sunday.

    The winner will collect $700,000 and the loser $400,000 from the competition.

    Arthur Biguier, a former U.S. champion watching the competition, said the computer has proved itself equal to the best of human players, no matter the outcome of the last match.

    This competition is a re-match following the human's victory over a weaker version of the machine in Philadelphia in February 1996.


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