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Evans On Chess. June 3, 1994. Copyright by GM Larry Evans.
FRITZ OUTWITS HUMANS
Chess machines are improving so fast they may soon be too strong to compete
with humans. But it's hardly a fair fight since computers clearly violate a
rule that bans the use of "handwritten, printed, or otherwise recorded
matter" during a game.
Maybe a thousand players in the world can still master the beasts, but for
how long? The latest saga in this compelling duel between man and machine
took place in Germany at the $50,000 World Chess Express Challenge sponsored
by Intel, a major producer of computer chips plowing big bucks into a series
of events for the Professional Chess Association.
Each player had six minutes to complete all his moves, a rapid form of chess
riddled with error known as blitz. The round robin tournament pitted 17
grandmasters with Fritz3, a wildcard entry that examines more positions in
just one game than a person in a lifetime. Since this formidable foe can find
the right moves at lightning speed, it was given only five minutes per game.
"Normally no computer could even compete with these stars. We wanted a really
strong program with a chance to do something spectacular, and Fritz has never
let us down. Intel's pentium processor powering the PC speeds up our software
by 400% and this made the difference," said Frederic Friedel, the brains
behind Fritz. "Our commercial model will be even stronger than the one that
played in Munich," he added.
How much stronger can Fritz get? It tied for the lead at 12.5 - 4.5 with
world champion Gary Kasparov, beat him in their individual game and outwitted
such stalwarts as Viswanathan Anand (12) Alexey Dreev, Boris Gelfand and
Nigel Short (11). However, in the playoff Kasparov slew Fritz 4-1 (3 wins, 2
draws).
In our first game 18-year-old whiz Vladimir Kramnik learns it is unwise to
give Fritz a pawn in the opening; he struggled in vain after losing a piece
on move 12. In the second game Kasparov teaches Fritz a lesson.
White: VLADIMIR KRAMNIK Black: FRITZ3 English Opening 1994 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 c5 3
Nf3 e6 4 g3 cxd4 5 Nxd4 Qc7 6 Bg2?! Qxc4 7 O-O Nc6 8 Nb3 d5 9 Nc3 Bb4 10 Bg5
Bxc3 11 Rc1? Qg4 12 Be3 Be5 13 Bc5 Bxb2 14 Rc2 Be5 15 f4 Bc7 16 Kh1 Bd7 17
Ba3 Qh5 18 Qd2 Rc8 19 Nc5 Ba5 20 Qd3 Rc7 21 e4 dxe4 22 Nxe4 Nxe4 23 Qxe4 Bb6
24 f5 h6 25 fxe6 Bxe6 26 Qf4 Qg5 27 Qd6 Rd7 28 Qf4 Qxf4 29 gxf4 Nd4 30 Rcc1
Kd8 31 f5 Nxf5 32 Rfd1 Bd4 33 Be4 Bxa2 34 Bc5 Bxc5 35 Rxd7 Kxd7 36 Rxc5 Nd6
37 Bd3 b6 38 Re5 Bc4 39 Bc2 b5 40 Kg2 a5 41 Kf3 Ra8 42 Ke3 a4 White Resigns
White: GARY KASPAROV Black: FRITZ3 Q's Gambit Accepted 1994 1 e3 d5 2 c4 dxc4
3 Bxc4 e5 4 d4 exd4 5 exd4 Bb4 6 Nc3 Nf6 7 Nf3 O-O 8 O-O Bg4 9 Be3 a5? 10 h3
Bh5 11 g4 Bg6 12 Ne5 Nbd7 13 f4 Nxe5? 14 dxe5 Qe8 15 Qe1 Ne4 16 a3 Bxc3 17
bxc3 Qc6 18 Ba2 h6 19 f5 Bh7 20 Bd4 Ng5 21 Qe3 Rfe8 22 h4 Ne4 23 g5 hxg5 24
hxg5 g6 25 e6 fxe6 26 fxe6 Re7 27 Rae1 b5 28 Qxe4 Qxe4 29 Rxe4 b4 30 Rf7 b3
31 Bxb3 c5 32 Rxe7 cxd4 and Black Resigns