OT: Kasparov-Deep Junior on ESPN2 Friday

[Greg Berge]

I don't think there has been a chess game covered live on US national television since the Fischer-Spassky world championship in 1972.

However, ESPN2 will actually be covering the final and decisive game between Garry Kasparov and the Deep Junior computer from 3:30-7:00 pm ET.  If there are any other patzers out there, I'll be giving a very unexpert rundown here.

Obligatory hockey connection: Kasparov is a huge hockey fan.

[CUlater \'89]

[Q] Kasparov is a huge hockey fan. [/Q]

So is Deep Junior -- early favorite for Sega NHL 2K3 championship. ;-)

[Greg Berge]

LOL.  I'm sure DJ's chip is so riddled with to-task customization that any of us could out-calc it hungover and using long division, regardless of its processor speed.

But at chess, it's the best there is (including, quite possibly, Garry).

[Greg Berge]

Cornell alum Jeremy Schapp is the talking head.  Apparently the two bullet points are to bang on the "man vs machine" thing whenever possible, and introduce aggressive, active language even when improbable.

[Section A]

I can't believe I'm watching this.

And I have an Orgo prelim next week! ::nut::

[Section A]

"this is like Game 7..."

um, not really.

By the way, I was at Jansen's dining today, and the whole team came in for their weekly team meeting. They were looking for a newspaper, and my roommate and I gave ours to them. "Nice guys," said Greg Hornby to some of his teammates, smiling. I was afraid he was suddenly going to spear us or something if we didn't give him the paper :-P

[Greg Berge]

Weird game.  Started out looking like a mainline Njadorf Sicilian, transposed into Schevenigen Variation but then Kasparov morphs it into something else with a highly atypical move.

[Greg Berge]

"Taking your wife"?

Um.... okay.

[Section A]

Riiiiiiiight....exactly what I was thinking.....

[Greg Berge]

I would post the moves but all the sites I can find with realtime updating are so swamped that they barely load.

[Greg Berge]

Here's the Najdorf Sicilian

Deep Junior v Kasparov

1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 d6
3. d4 cxd4
4. Nxd4 Nf6
5. Nc3 a6

Starting with 6. it's been a little hard to figure out, because ESPN is not doing a good job of reporting moves.

[Greg Berge]

6. Be2 e5
7. Nb3 Be7
8. O-O O-O
9. kh1 Bd7
10. Be3 Bc6
11. Bf3 Nbd7
12. a4 b6

Evaluation: DJ looks jammed in.  Kasparov reversed the standard move order pf 7. and 9. and might have taken DJ out of book.

[Greg Berge]

13. Qd3 -- aggressive.

Garry needs to shave the back of his wrists.  It must be an Azerbaidjani thing.

[ugarte]

Is it tied going into the final, or are they within a point of eachother? (ie., does the winner win, or can one of them take it with a tie?)

[Greg Berge]

Great site here:

http://www.x3dworld.com/Entertainment/chessMVM/DGT/Flash/broadcast.html

13. ... Bb7
14. h3 Rc8