Deep Fritz versus Deep Junior 2007,
billed as The President's Cup, and dubbed as The Ultimate Computer Chess Challenge2007, was organized by the FIDE as side event of the Candidates Matches from May 26 to June 14, 2007 in the Goverment House, Elista, Republic of Kalmykia, Russia. The six, or if tied, seven game match with a $100,000 prize fund took place from June 6 to June 11 with a possible playoff day scheduled on June 12, and was sponsored by FIDE and the at that time president of the Republic of Kalmykia, FIDE presidentKirsan Ilyumzhinov[1].
Game 1, 2, 5 and 6 were draws. Game 3 was a complex struggle following a deeply prepared opening line in the poisoned pawn variation won by Deep Junior in great style. Deep Fritz further lost game 4 after committing 33.Bf4 which turned out to be an serious error [5].
Just before the Ultimate Computer Chess Match began, Rybka author Vasik Rajlich criticized the lack of an open, formal qualification procedure of the FIDE event, and preference of ChessBase engines, and challenged the winner with a $100,000 prize fund, even offering odds of a game in a 24 game match [8][9]. There were indeed plans and concrete negotiations for a Rybka versus Deep Junior match during the World Chess Championship 2007 in Mexico City with David Levy, Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky, and Rajlich representative Sergey Abramov involved, who stated that his company, Convekta Ltd., which is the distributor of Rybka, would guarantee the $100,000, so that if no other sponsor could be found, the money was still assured. Finally the negotiations abandoned on the topic of playing remote versus playing on weaker local hardware on site [10]. Instead, Zappa took the chance, and the Zappa versus Rybka Match took place in September 2007 for a $10,000 prize money [11].
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Deep Fritz versus Deep Junior 2007,
billed as The President's Cup, and dubbed as The Ultimate Computer Chess Challenge 2007, was organized by the FIDE as side event of the Candidates Matches from May 26 to June 14, 2007 in the Goverment House, Elista, Republic of Kalmykia, Russia. The six, or if tied, seven game match with a $100,000 prize fund took place from June 6 to June 11 with a possible playoff day scheduled on June 12, and was sponsored by FIDE and the at that time president of the Republic of Kalmykia, FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov [1].
The contenders were the reigning World Computer Chess Champion Deep Junior represented by their authors Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky, and the winner versus World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik in 2006, Deep Fritz by Frans Morsch and Mathias Feist, represented by its opening book author Alex Kure. Both programs played on remote computers, connected via the internet, Deep Junior had a 16 x 2.6GHz core Intel Tigerton (Caneland) processor, Deep Fritz played on an 8 core AMD box [2]. Despite the overlapping schedule with their own WCCC 2007 starting on June 11 as confirmed on April 5 [3], implying Deep Junior would not defend its title, the match was sanctioned by the ICGA, its president David Levy served as arbiter. The match ended with 4-2 in favour of Deep Junior, winnng two games and four draws.
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Games
Game 1, 2, 5 and 6 were draws. Game 3 was a complex struggle following a deeply prepared opening line in the poisoned pawn variation won by Deep Junior in great style. Deep Fritz further lost game 4 after committing 33.Bf4 which turned out to be an serious error [5].Game 3
[6]Game 4
[7]Challenge
Just before the Ultimate Computer Chess Match began, Rybka author Vasik Rajlich criticized the lack of an open, formal qualification procedure of the FIDE event, and preference of ChessBase engines, and challenged the winner with a $100,000 prize fund, even offering odds of a game in a 24 game match [8] [9]. There were indeed plans and concrete negotiations for a Rybka versus Deep Junior match during the World Chess Championship 2007 in Mexico City with David Levy, Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky, and Rajlich representative Sergey Abramov involved, who stated that his company, Convekta Ltd., which is the distributor of Rybka, would guarantee the $100,000, so that if no other sponsor could be found, the money was still assured. Finally the negotiations abandoned on the topic of playing remote versus playing on weaker local hardware on site [10]. Instead, Zappa took the chance, and the Zappa versus Rybka Match took place in September 2007 for a $10,000 prize money [11].See also
Publications
Chapter 12 2007: Deep Junior Deep Sixes Deep Fritz in Elista, 4–2
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External Links
The Ultimate Computer Chess Challenge - Fact Sheet (pdf)
References
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