4/5/2013 – This unique computer-assisted chess match between women's world champion GM Anna Ushenina and WIM Olena Boytsun was held on April 2nd in Kyiv’s Radisson Blu Hotel. It drew an unprecedented amount of media attention and was featured in the news media and TV.. Good for chess and good for the «Chess for Children» charity, of which Ms Boytsun is the president. Big pictorial report.
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The first female Advanced Chess match in chess history
On April 2, 2013, the first female advanced chess match in chess history
took place in Kyiv. FIDE Women’s World Chess Champion Anna Ushenina
and the initiator of the All-Ukrainian Charity Foundation Olena Boytsun
played a computer assisted game with the time control of 30 minutes + 5
seconds for each move.
Kyiv’s Radisson Blu Hotel hosted the nation’s first officially
sanctioned advanced, or computer-assisted, chess match on April 2
between reigning women’s chess champion Anna Ushenina and women’s
international master Olena Boytsun.
The match ended in a draw after Boytsun, playing white, held the
initiative for most of the game that put Ushenina uncomfortably on
the defensive in a sharp position that originated in the Slavic Defense.
Both players “teamed up” with computer chess programs
to play a high-quality game, virtually blunder-free. No player could
look at their opponent’s computers, however. The idea is to
use a chess program to help evaluate candidate moves during the course
of the game, but the human player ultimately decides which move to
make and is always in control.
“Advanced chess is the synthesis of creative chess play and
latest computer technology,” said Kirsan Ilyumzhinov via video
link, president of FIDE, the world’s chess governing body. Advanced
chess was first introduced after then world chess champion Garry Kasparov
lost a chess match in 1997 to IMB’s Deep Blue computer program.
In 1998, he played the world’s first advanced chess match against
Bulgarian grandmaster Veselin Topalov in Spain. Both used the ChessBase
information search program combined with the Fritz-5 chess program,
that ended in a 3-3 draw.
Rated 2477, Ushenina became Ukraine’s first women’s chess
champion after winning the title in December 2012 in Russia. She overcame
Bulgarian Antoaneta Stefanova in a tie-breaker. She also was an integral
part of Ukraine’s gold medal-winning national chess team, which
took top honors in March at the World Women’s Chess Olympiad
held in Kazakhstan. Boytsun is rated 2264, and is a recognized economist
and founder of the Chess for Children charity in Dnipropetrovsk.
At the drawing ceremony, conducted by the International Arbiter Oleg Tovchyga,
Olena Boytsun got to play white. The game lasted 38 moves and ended in a
draw in the position with a little advantage for White, according to the
estimation of Houdini chess engines.
World Women champion Anna Ushenina said that it was an interested experience
for her to participate in an advanced chess match: “I was very glad
to receive the invitation from Olena Boytsun and the Chess for Children
Foundation to take part in such an extraordinary event. The first female
advanced chess match in Ukraine will be a powerful incentive to the popularization
of chess in the country and worldwide. We have discussed with Olena the
idea of such a match for a long time, and now I am happy that Ukraine finally
has such a good initiative like the Chess for Children, and all our dreams
can come true.”
The match was played under the aegis of FIDE, whose President Kirsan Iljumzhinov
greeted the participants live from London via Skype. In his opening speech
Iljumzhinov underlined great contribution of Ukrainian chess players to
the development of chess worldwide.
The participant and organizer of the match Olena Boytsun stated: “I
am very glad that our event went on the highest level and attracted attention
of honourable guests, experts, journalists, young chess players. We chose
rapid time control, and at some point during the game I made the decision
not to use risky alternatives and to end the match in a draw. I believe
that a draw with the world chess champion is a good result.”
GM Spartak Vysochin commented upon the match, which was broadcast on-line
on the international chess site Playchess.com, as well as at the official
web site.
After the game a tablet computer with pre-installed chess software was
raffled among the guests of the event. Twelve-year-old Evheniy Slepchuk
from Kyiv won the prize.
Olena Boytsun and Anna Ushenina with chess
children from the charity
A private one-on-one lesson from the WIM
The match received broad media coverage: eight national, four regional
TV channels and three radio stations were present at the event; and many
national Ukrainian newspapers and informational agencies sent their reporters
to follow the game.
The Ukrainian Charity Foundation “Chess for Children”
was founded in November 2012 by WIM Olena Boytsun. The primary purpose
of the Fund activity is to discover the potential of every child by
engaging children into playing chess and by promoting chess in society.
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