27
June, 2005
Today, the six day and final
round of the MAN vs MACHINE tournament between UK number
1, Grand Master Michael Adams and Chess Super Computer HYDRA,
ended in another victory for HYDRA.
The
game lasted for more than four hours and a thrashing 41
moves putting the final standings after today’s concluding
round at:
Grand
Master Michael Adams, 0.5, US$ 10,000
HYDRA, 5.5, US$ 135,000
The
future of MAN vs MACHINE chess is now firmly in doubt after
the convincing victory at the Wembley Conference Centre
in London.
Match Arbiter Albert Vasse
said: “I have overseen a number of man vs machine
matches, even one with Kasparov. I have never seen a human
play as well as Adams has in this match, but still he got
only one draw out of six matches. We have entered a new
phase in chess computing. It will now be very hard for any
human being to triumph over a machine.”
Michael
Adams said: “I didn’t play badly throughout
the event, but it’s just so difficult to make an impact.
It’s not like playing against other humans –
for starters against humans you may actually win a point.”
British
Grand Master Stuart Conquest, live commentator for the match,
also believed HYDRA will change the face of man vs machine
chess forever.
“Even
when Adams was in a really strong position you always think
the machine can triumph. There were moves no one in the
room could really understand, but I guess when the machine
can calculate 40-plus moves ahead, it’s bound to see
something we can’t. This makes it an almost impossible
opponent.”
The game in Round 6
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6
5. Bd3 Bc5 6. Nb3 Ba7 7. O-O Ne7 8. c4 d6 9. Nc3 Nbc6 10.
Qe2 O-O 11. Be3 e5 12. Rad1 Nd4 13. Bxd4 exd4 14. Nd5 Nc6
15. f4 Qh4 16. Nd2 Be6 17. Nc7 Rac8 18. Nxe6 fxe6 19. g3
Qe7 20. a3 e5 21. f5 Nb8 22. Kg2 Nd7 23. b4 Kh8 24. Bc2
Nf6 25. Rc1 Rc7 26. Bb3 Rfc8 27. Rc2 a5 28. Rfc1 Qe8 29.
h3 a4 30. Ba2 Re7 31. c5 dxc5 32. bxc5 Rec7 33. Be6 Rd8
34. Qd3 g6 35. Kh2 Qc6 36. Qf3 Rf8 37. g4 Qb5 38. Qg3 Qe2+
39. Qg2 Qe3 40. Qg3 Rxc5 41. Qxe3 dxe3 42. Nf3 Nxe4 43.
Kg2 Kg7 0-1
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