Kasparov versus Deep Junior 2003

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The Kasparov versus Deep Junior Match 2003 between at that time world No. 1 player Garry Kasparov and reigning World Computer Chess Champion Deep Junior by Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky took place at Athletic Club, City House, Central Park South, New York City, New York, January 26 until February 08, 2003.

=Man vs Machine World Championship= The match was sanctioned by the FIDE and ICGA as Man vs. Machine World Championship. The six games match ended 3-3, Garry Kasparov winning game 1, Deep Junior winning game 3, and four remaining draws, most spectacular the bishop sacrifice by Deep Junior in game 5.

Game 1
[Event "Man vs Machine"] [Site "New York, NY USA"] [Date "2003.01.26"] [Round "1"] [White "Garry Kasparov"] [Black "Deep Junior"] [Result "1-0"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.g4 dxc4 8.Bxc4 b6 9.e4 e5 10.g5 Nh5 11.Be3 O-O 12.O-O-O Qc7 13.d5 b5 14.dxc6 bxc4 15.Nb5 Qxc6 16.Nxd6 Bb7 17.Qc3 Rae8 18.Nxe8 Rxe8 19.Rhe1 Qb5 20.Nd2 Rc8 21.Kb1 Nf8 22.Ka1 Ng6 23.Rc1 Ba6 24.b3 cxb3 25.Qxb3 Ra8 26.Qxb5 Bxb5 27.Rc7 1-0 View this game on Lichess.org

Game 2
[Event "Man vs Machine"] [Site "New York, NY USA"] [Date "2003.01.28"] [Round "2"] [White "Deep Junior"] [Black "Garry Kasparov"] [Result "1/2-1/2"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Bc5 6.Nb3 Ba7 7.c4 Nc6 8.Nc3 d6 9.O-O Nge7 10.Re1 O-O 11.Be3 e5 12.Nd5 a5 13.Rc1 a4 14.Bxa7 Rxa7 15.Nd2 Nd4 16.Qh5 Ne6 17.Rc3 Nc5 18.Bc2 Nxd5 19.exd5 g6 20.Qh6 f5 21.Ra3 Qf6 22.b4 axb3 23.Rxa7 bxc2 24.Rc1 e4 25.Rxc2 Qa1+ 26.Nf1 f4 27.Ra8 e3 28.fxe3 fxe3 29.Qxf8+ Kxf8 30.Rxc8+ Kf7 1/2-1/2

Game 3
[Event "Man vs Machine"] [Site "New York, NY USA"] [Date "2003.01.30"] [Round "3"] [White "Garry Kasparov"] [Black "Deep Junior"] [Result "0-1"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 b6 7.cxd5 exd5 8.Bd3 Be7 9.Bd2 O-O 10.g4 Nxg4 11.Rg1 Ndf6 12.h3 Nh6 13.e4 dxe4 14.Bxh6 exd3 15.Rxg7+ Kh8 16.Qxd3 Rg8 17.Rxg8+ Nxg8 18.Bf4 f6 19.O-O-O Bd6 20.Qe3 Bxf4 21.Qxf4 Bxh3 22.Rg1 Qb8 23.Qe3 Qd6 24.Nh4 Be6 25.Rh1 Rd8 26.Ng6+ Kg7 27.Nf4 Bf5 28.Nce2 Ne7 29.Ng3 Kh8 30.Nxf5 Nxf5 31.Qe4 Qd7 32.Rh5 Nxd4 33.Ng6+ Kg8 34.Ne7+ Kf8 35.Nd5 Qg7 36.Qxd4 Rxd5 0-1 View this game on Lichess.org

Game 4
[Event "Man vs Machine"] [Site "New York, NY USA"] [Date "2003.02.02"] [Round "4"] [White "Deep Junior"] [Black "Garry Kasparov"] [Result "1/2-1/2"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e6 5.Nb5 d6 6.c4 Nf6 7.N1c3 a6 8.Na3 Nd7 9.Nc2 Be7 10.Be2 b6 11.O-O Bb7 12.h3 O-O 13.Be3 Rc8 14.Qd2 Nce5 15.b3 Nf6 16.f3 Qc7 17.Rac1 Rfe8 18.a3 Ned7 19.Rfd1 Qb8 20.Bf2 Rcd8 21.b4 Ba8 22.a4 Rc8 23.Rb1 Qc7 24.a5 bxa5 25.b5 Bb7 26.b6 Qb8 27.Ne3 Nc5 28.Qa2 Nfd7 29.Na4 Ne5 30.Nc2 Ncd7 31.Nd4 Red8 32.Kh1 Nc6 33.Nxc6 Rxc6 34.Kg1 h6 35.Qa3 Rdc8 36.Bg3 Bf8 37.Qc3 Ne5 38.c5 Nd7 39.Qxa5 Nxc5 40.Nxc5 Rxc5 41.Qa4 R5c6 42.Bf2 d5 43.Bxa6 Bc5 44.Bxc5 Rxc5 45.Bxb7 Qxb7 46.exd5 exd5 47.Qa7 R5c7 48.Qxb7 Rxb7 49.Rxd5 Rc6 50.Rdb5 h5 51.Kf2 Re6 52.f4 g6 53.Kg3 Kg7 54.Kh4 Kh6 55.R1b4 Rd6 56.g3 f6 57.g4 hxg4 58.hxg4 Kg7 59.Rb3 Rc6 60.g5 f5 61.Rb1 1/2-1/2

Game 5
Annotations by Kurt Utzinger [Event "Man vs Machine"] [Site "New York, NY USA"] [Date "2003.02.05"] [Round "5"] [White "Garry Kasparov"] [Black "Deep Junior"] [Result "1/2-1/2"]

1. d4 Nf6 {This time the Junior team avoided the Semi Slav (Utzinger,K)} 2.c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. cxd5 exd5 7. Nge2 Re8 8. O-O Bd6 9. a3 {With this rarely played move, Kasparov throws Deep Junior out of book. White can either win space by b2-b4 or go for a kingside attack by f2-f3, then e3-e4 and Qd1-e1-h4 (Utzinger,K)} 9... c6 {A positional sound reply. Deep Junior protects its central pawn and avoids Nc3-b5. A more active alternative was 9... c5 (Utzinger,K)} 10. Qc2 {(?!) In my opinion, 10.f3 was more precise. On the other hand I cannot imagine that Kasparov had not thought about the coming sacrifice. (Utzinger,K)} 10... Bxh2+ {Wow!! Deep Junior sacrifices his bishop. Can Kasparov hold this position? Or is this only one of those speculative moves that are so typical for Deep Junior? We shall soon know for sure (Utzinger,K)} 11. Kxh2 Ng4+ 12. Kg3 Qg5 13. f4 Qh5 14. Bd2 Qh2+ 15. Kf3 Qh4 {A very difficult situation for Kasparov. He can play 16.Ng3 with a draw by perpetual check. Or he can try to go for a win with 16.g3 in the hope to escape with his king to e1 (Utzinger,K)} 16. Bxh7+ {I had indeed not expected this. But this move in conjunction with the following move leads to a draw by perpetual check. Just a great game of Deep Junior (Utzinger,K)} 16... Kh8 17. Ng3 Nh2+ 18. Kf2 Ng4+ 19. Kf3 Nh2+ {Draw agreed} 1/2-1/2 View this game on Lichess.org

Game 6
[Event "Man vs Machine"] [Site "New York, NY USA"] [Date "2003.07.02"] [Round "6"] [White "Deep Junio"] [Black "Garry Kasparov"] [Result "1/2-1/2"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.O-O O-O 9.Kh1 Bd7 10.Be3 Bc6 11.Bf3 Nbd7 12.a4 b6 13.Qd3 Bb7 14.h3 Rc8 15.Rad1 h6 16.Rfe1 Qc7 17.g3 Rfd8 18.Kh2 Re8 19.Re2 Qc4 20.Qxc4 Rxc4 21.Nd2 Rc7 22.Bg2 Rec8 23.Nb3 Rxc3 24.bxc3 Bxe4 25.Bc1 Bxg2 26.Kxg2 Rxc3 27.Ba3 Ne8 28.f4 1/2-1/2 =Man vs Machine Symposium= In October 2002, a symposium with the title Man versus Machine: the Experiment was held at the University of Haifa in preparation for the upcoming Kasparov versus Deep Junior Match. The aim was to explore the fundamental issues of the interaction between "Man versus Machine" and the sportive value of such competitions. Beside an advanced chess demonstration match between Boris Alterman and Alon Greenfeld, both supported by Junior, several speakers represented a broad interdisciplinary spectrum from computer science, artificial intelligence and chess playing to philosophy and psychology :

Talks

 * Jonathan Schaeffer, The Games Computers (and People) Play.
 * Sarit Kraus, What is the Difference Between Diplomacy and Chess?
 * Jaap van den Herik, How to Model a Grandmaster's Intuition.
 * Jean Louis Lassez, Asymptotic Behavior of Machine Learning Algorithms.
 * David Levy, Writing the Rules: Tournament Play Between Machine and Man.
 * Shaul Markovitch, Tutorial: How Computers Play Chess.
 * Oron Shagrir, Does the Game of Chess Provide a Good Benchmark for Intelligence.
 * Fernand Gobet, The Psychology of Chess.
 * Yaron Shoham, Sivan Toledo, A New Game-Search Algorithm for Both Chess and Other Games.
 * Lev Finkelstein, Learning to Play Chess Selectively by Acquiring Move Patterns.

Fotos & Games
Shaul Markovitch talks on How Computers Play Chess

Advanced Chess between Alon Greenfeld and Boris Alterman, Shay Bushinsky and Amir Ban watching [Event "Advanced Chess Match"] [Site "University of Haifa"] [Date "2002.10.15"] [Round "1"] [White "Boris Alterman"] [Black "Alon Greenfeld"] [Result "1/2-1/2"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Bd6 7.O-O O-O 8.c4 c6 9.cxd5 cxd5 10.Nc3 Nxc3 11.bxc3 Bg4 12.Rb1 Nd7 13.h3 Bh5 14.Rb5 Nb6 15.c4 Bxf3 16.Qxf3 dxc4 17.Bc2 Qd7 18.a4 g6 19.Be3 Rac8 20.Rfb1 c3 21.a5 Nc4 22.Bh6 Rfe8 23.Rxb7 Qe6 24.Rf1 Re7 25.Rxe7 Bxe7 26.Rd1 Nd2 27.Qd3 Bd6 28.a6 Qc4 29.Bxd2 cxd2 30.Qxc4 Rxc4 31.Rxd2 Bb4 32.Bb3 Rc1+ 33.Rd1 Rxd1+ 34.Bxd1 Kf8 35.Kf1 Bc3 36.d5 Ke7 37.Ke2 Kd6 38.Bb3 Bd4 39.f4 h5 40.h4 Bb6 41.g3 Bc5 42.Kf3 Bb4 43.Bc2 f5 44.Ke2 Bc5 45.Ba4 Ke7 46.Bb5 Bb4 1/2-1/2 =See also=
 * Kasparov versus Deep Blue 1997
 * Kramnik versus Deep Fritz 2002
 * Bareev versus HIARCS 2003
 * Kasparov versus X3D Fritz 2003

=Publications=

Symposium

 * Omid David, Nathan S. Netanyahu (2002). Report on the Symposium Man vs. Machine: The Experiment. ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4, pdf

Match

 * David Levy (2003). The State of the Art in Man vs. “Machine” Chess. ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1 » PV Extensions
 * Karsten Müller (2003). Man Equals Machine in Chess. ICGA Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1
 * Jonathan Schaeffer (2003). The First FIDE Man-Machine World Chess Championship. pdf
 * Eric Hallsworth (2003). Deep Junior v Garry Kasparov - Games 1-3. Selective Search 104, pp. 25, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
 * Eric Hallsworth (2003). Deep Junior v Garry Kasparov - Games 4-6. Selective Search 105, pp. 7, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
 * Eric Hallsworth (2003). Deep Junior - Kasparov: A Second Look at Game 5. Selective Search 106, pp. 16, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
 * Eric Hallsworth (2003). Deep Junior - Kasparov: A Third Look at Game 5. Selective Search 107, pp. 9, pdf hosted by Mike Watters
 * Monty Newborn (2011). Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere. Springer, ISBN-13: 978-0857293404
 * [[FILE:bejDeepBlue.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|link=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780857293404]]
 * Chapter 5: 2003: Deep Junior Confounds Kasparov, Drawing 3–3 in New York

=Forum Posts=
 * Kasparov - Deep Junior score predictions? by Mig Greengard, CCC, August 07, 2002
 * Kasparov vs Junior Update by Michael Vox, CCC, November 22, 2002
 * Kasparov - Deep Junior OR Get Ready for Another Sham! by Onund Thorkalsson, CCC, January 01, 2003
 * Garry Kasparov -v- DEEP JUNIOR: ICGA Briefing by Guy Haworth, January 07, 2003 CCC,
 * Kasparov - Deep Junior: and tablebases draw rule by Francesco Di Tolla, CCC, January 22, 2003
 * Kasparov Beats Junior in game 1! by Luis Smith, CCC, January 26, 2003
 * Deep Junior 1/2 - 1/2 Kasparov by Andrew Williams, CCC, January 28, 2003
 * Garry Kasparov - Deep Junior... 0-1 PGN by Ronnie Cole, CCC, January 30, 2003
 * Kasparov - Junior game 4 by Martin Giepmans, CCC, February 02, 2003
 * Deep Junior - Kasparov Game 4 -- Draw by John Merlino, CCC, February 02, 2003
 * Kasparov,G vs Deep Junior (5) draw, comments, replay, download by Kurt Utzinger, CCC, February 05, 2003
 * Some Analysis by Chess System Tal 2 of Game 5 Kasparov-DJ by Ludicrous, CCC, February 06, 2003 » Chess System Tal
 * Deep Junior vs Kasparov,G [6 draw] by Kurt Utzinger, CCC, February 07, 2003
 * Sack busted by Kai Laskos, CCC, March 18, 2017

=External Links=
 * Kasparov & Deep Junior fight to 3-3 draw!, Drum's News Briefs
 * Kasparov-Junior from HIARCS Chess Software for PC, Mac, Pocket PC, iPhone, iPod and Palm Chess
 * FIDE Man-Machine WC (2003) from chessgames.com
 * Kasparov - Deep Junior, New York, 2003 by Mark Weeks

FIDE

 * Kasparov - Deep Junior Million Dollar Match Postponed until December, FIDE News, September 18, 2004
 * Kasparov vs Deep Junior - Match details, FIDE News, January 17, 2003

ChessBase

 * 'Deep Junior is clearly better than Deep Blue', ChessBase News, January 27, 2003
 * Pictures from the Big Apple, ChessBase News, January 27, 2003
 * Kasparov's 'fingerfehler' lets the computer off the hook, ChessBase News, January 29, 2003
 * Deep Junior strikes back, ChessBase News, February 01, 2003
 * Kasparov, Deep Junior draw game four, ChessBase News, February 03, 2003
 * Kasparov-Deep Junior draw after stunning sacrifice, ChessBase News, February 06, 2003
 * Kasparov vs Deep Junior ends in 3-3 draw, ChessBase News, February 08, 2003
 * Deep Junior Makes the Fight Worth It, ChessBase News, February 13, 2003

Video

 * Garry Kasparov vs Deep Junior, YouTube Video

=References= Up one Level