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SHOCKER! Iceman Kramnik loses game 5
13.10.2002
– In its best game of the match Fritz had world champion Vladimir Kramnik under considerable pressure. With 15 minutes on his clock to make six more moves, Kramnik tried to avoid a long, tedious and possibly lost endgame – and played the worst blunder of his career to lose a piece and resigned almost immediately.
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Behind Deep Blue
13.10.2002
– The old adage that behind every good man there’s a good woman is true more times than not. More or less the same can be said for chess computers: behind every good chess computer there’s a good designer. James DuBois takes a first look at
Behind Deep Blue by Feng-Hsiung Hsu.
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Brains in Bahrain live coverage
13.10.2002
– At 15:00h today (14:00h CET, 13:00h London, 8:00 am New York) you can follow
the match live between Kramnik and Deep Fritz. You can view the broadcast
on our Flash applet or you can watch the action live, discuss the games with
people all over the world by logging onto the playchess.com
server. If you do not have Fritz you can get a free ten-day client
here.
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Man vs Machine – it's a phenomanama!
12.10.2002
– Do the brains in Bahrain think mainly of Hussain? Will it be neurons over neutrons?
Who will come out ahead in this land of sheikhs and checks? Mig dragged himself
away from the hotel buffet long enough to answer these questions an many more
in this article direct from the 16th smallest country in the world (between
Singapore and Micronesia). It's a phenomanama!
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New tricks and new friends in Bahrain
12.10.2002
– Two free days after game four of the Brains
in Bahrain Man-Machine Challenge. One we spent on a sight-seeing
tour around the northern section of the main island of Bahrain. On this trip
Vladimir Kramnik picked up some valuable tips on how to defend a against the awaited onslaught in game five against Deep Fritz, and he also timorously made friends with some local denizens. Check
it out in our
Bahrain Gallery IV.
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Sasikiran shocks Anand at Hyderabad World Cup
12.10.2002
– Indian superstar Vishy Anand is feeling some heat from in his own countrymen.
21-year-old K. Sasikiran, who hails from the same city, Chennai (Madras), as
Anand, played a Reti
Opening against his friend in round two of the second World Cup chess tournament
in Hyderabad. Sasi is a modest lad who after the game said he he had benefitted
from the errors made by the world champion. Here is a full
report and all games played so far in Hyderabad.
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An expert view of the match
11.10.2002
– He is a leading analyst and chess author, an expert on
the endgame. Who is better suited to annotating the games between Vladimir Kramnik
and Deep Fritz in the Brains
in Bahrain Man-Machine Challenge. GM Karsten Müller has looked
at all four played so far and provides his very readable expert opinion on our
replayable Javascript board (click the notation to follow the moves): game
one, game
two, game
three, game
four.
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Fritz Tries a New Twist and Earns a Draw in Game 4
10.10.2002
– After getting outplayed in closed positions Team Fritz tried a new line in game four that opened things up. Vladimir Kramnik still gained an advantage but was unable to realize it. With the 41 move draw the first half of the match ended with a 3-1 lead for the human world champion. The next game takes place after two rest days on Sunday, October 13.
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Anand favourite at World Cup in Hyderabad
09.10.2002
– Former FIDE World Champion Viswanathan Anand defends his World Cup title in
the second edition which started at the Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad on October
9, 2002. The winner of the men's event takes $46,000 while the women event champion
pockets USD 16,000, as the Hindustan
Times reports. A list of participants is available here.
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Who stole my candy, who froze my pieces?
09.10.2002
– You have read about the Man vs Machine match, in scores
of reports from all over the world. But do you know what is going on in
the background? Nobody has yet reported about the raids on Kramnik's food supplies,
or explained how the chess pieces ended up in his refrigerator. We fill
in these gaping holes in the general news coverage in our
Bahrain Picture Gallery 3.
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Ponomariov – 'They want to favour Garry Kimovich!'
09.10.2002
– The current FIDE world champion will play Garry Kasparov early next year, the
winner is to take on the classical world champion, Kramnik or Leko, in a reunification
match. For Ruslan Ponomariov, who has just lost his trainer, is complaining
bitterly about the way he is being treated in this endeavour. "I have signed
no contracts," Ponomariov says ominously. Read all about it in his interview
in Ukrainian Chess
Online.
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Kramnik Fights Back to Win Game 3, Leads 2.5-0.5
08.10.2002
– To be a Grandmaster you must know how to fight every type of battle. To be a
world champion you must learn how to make your opponent fight on your battlefield. Vladimir Kramnik came out of an inferior position to outplay Fritz in a tough five-hour duel.
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