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ChessChrono : 2006 Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz, Man - Machine Match

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By Mark Weeks, About.com

An index of About Chess blog articles on the 2006 Man - Machine match, Bonn, Germany, between World Champion Vladimir Kramnik and strong chess playing computer Deep Fritz; November - December 2006.

Vladimir Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz • The official site for the match (at www.rag.de).

The Last Man - Machine Match? • The latest man - machine match, featuring World Champion Vladimir Kramnik against the chess playing computer Deep Fritz, ended the same way all similar matches have ended in recent years. The machine won a solid victory. [10 December 2006; Elsewhere on the Web]

Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz at Match Midpoint • At midpoint in the six game man - machine match between World Champion Vladimir Kramnik and strong chess playing computer Deep Fritz, the computer leads 2-1. [1 December 2006]

Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz, Day by Day • The match between World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik and Deep Fritz starts today, 25 November, and we will be following the event in our forum. Have a comment? Let us know! [25 November 2006; Join the Discussion]

Anti-computer Strategies • 'The upcoming match reminded me of something I've wondered about the past few years as top GMs have lost and drawn matches against computer programs. Are Deep Fritz and company really the best chess players around today, or has the GMs relatively poor performance been due to not exploiting the computers weaknesses to the fullest?' [11 November 2006; Join the Discussion]

Who Will Win the Kramnik - Deep Fritz Match? • Only six weeks after winning the unified World Championship, GM Vladimir Kramnik faces a potentially tougher opponent: Deep Fritz, the multiprocessor version of Chessbase's flagship chess playing computer program. The six game match starts 25 November, in Bonn, Germany. See our poll results. [28 October 2006; Join the Discussion]

Computer Chess - Summer 2005 • Whither man-machine matches? Adams humiliated by Hydra. Kasimdzhanov draws with the ToolBar. [27 August 2005; Elsewhere on the Web]

Computer Chess News • Coming events: GM Michael Adams vs. Hydra, FIDE World Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov vs. the Accoona AI ToolBar. Two recent disasters: Bilbao, October 2004, Topalov, Ponomariov, and Karjakin vs. Hydra, Fritz, and Deep Junior, a 3.5-8.5 loss for the humans; Jakarta, January 2005, Four titled Indonesian players, including GMs Adianto and Megaranto, could manage only three draws in 16 games against the machines. [4 June 2005; Elsewhere on the Web]

Kramnik vs. Fritz in Bahrain, 2002 • Kramnik 4.0 - Fritz 4.0 [26 October 2002]

Background

2006 Kramnik - Topalov, World Championship Unification Match

The Development of Computer Chess

Man - Machine Chess Matches

Kasparov - X3D Fritz, New York, 2003

Kasparov - Deep Junior, New York, 2003

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