COMPUTER, DRAINED KASPAROV PLAY TO DRAW IN 4TH GAME.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. An exhausted Garry Kasparov Garry Kimovich Kasparov (IPA: [ˈgarʲə ˈkʲɪməvʲə̈ʨ kʌˈsparəf]; Russian: and the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) supercomputer "Deep Blue" battled to a draw Wednesday, leaving the first regulation match between human and machine tied at 2-2 after four games. "I'm really tired," said Kasparov, who will play the final two games Friday and Saturday. "If I was playing a human opponent, they would be too. I feel pressure. The computer does not." Computer operator Murray Campbell There is also Murray Campbell (columnist) Murray Campbell manages the Intelligent Information Analysis group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York, USA. , an IBM research IBM Research, a division of IBM, is a research and advanced development organization and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects. scientist, offered the draw after the 50th move, and Kasparov accepted. An offer from Kasparov for a draw had been rejected by Deep Blue after the 41st move. Kasparov said he was pleased with his play and that he was able to defend himself in some awkward positions the computer had created. "It's a very new type of game that any human grandmaster has to play," said Kasparov. "Your opponent will never miss any short-term, tactical combinations." For much of the early going Wednesday, Kasparov held a slight advantage. That began dissipate when he had to rush to complete six moves in 13 minutes to finish his allotted al·lot tr.v. al·lot·ted, al·lot·ting, al·lots 1. To parcel out; distribute or apportion: allotting land to homesteaders; allot blame. 2. 40 moves in the first two hours. The computer, by comparison, had 38 minutes to finish its six moves. After that, the experts said the computer at some points was acting as if it were playing for a draw. "I'm sure Kasparov feels he missed some opportunities," international master Maurice Ashley Maurice Ashley (born March 6, 1966 St. Andrew, Jamaica) is a chess grandmaster. He is the first and only African-American grandmaster. In the October 2006 rating lists, he had a FIDE rating of 2465, and a USCF rating of 2520 at standard chess, and 2536 at quick chess. said. "The computer has played quite well against the best chess player in the world for four games." Monty Newborn, one of the tournament organizers and a computer science professor at McGill University, said he believes the computer has played better than Kasparov expected. "The computer is an eel. You think you've got it by the neck and it squeezes out." The intense pressure of playing a supercomputer with the ability to calculate billions of moves each minute appeared to wear on Kasparov. At one point, after the Russian grandmaster made what observers said was a masterful 25th move, the computer crashed and Kasparov became visibly frustrated, leaping up from the chess table and pacing. "Garry played a very daring move," said computer scientist Frederic A. Friedel, a longtime friend. "He was at a fork where he could go on to a dramatic and drastic attack, and at that moment, it goes down." On the 42nd move, Kasparov sacrificed his rook rook, term used for a common Eurasian bird (genus Corvus) of the family Corvidae (Crow family), smaller than the American crow. The jackdaw is a European species of the genus. Rooks nest in large colonies, whence the term rookery. for a knight, a move some of the experts said was a sign of panic. |
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