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Graz – a view of the "Schlossberg" (Palace Mountain)
Entry to the Schlossberg
Entry to the tournament hall (yes, it's inside the mountain!)
Computer chess in the cavernous "Dom im Berg". That's Frans Morsch
of Fritz (right) watching one of his main rivals Shay Bushinsky (Junior)
The green light of the playing hall shining on Alex Kure and Mathias Feist
(Fritz)
Vince Diepeveen in his game against Shredder. We are told that Vincent is running
his program Diep on a research computer with 500 processors. This machine costs
the Dutch taxpayers €240,000 (over $250,000) per day. Vincent has done
good work on the massive parallelisation of his chess engine, but he was only
able to test the machine on the evening before the first round. Diep is running
at five to seven million nodes per second.
The Ruy Lopez team that beat reigning champion Junior in round one
Rolf Huber of Parsos, during the round two game against Junior
Live audio commentary on the Playchess server by GM Peter Wells
Round three: Fritz vs Shredder (Mathias Feist vs Stefan Meyer-Kahlen). Fritz
is playing fine positional chess which, according to author Frans Morsch, is
a result of the preparation for the match against Garry Kasparov in New York.
In the key third-round game Shredder put up the toughest possible resistance,
but in the end Fritz was able to prevail in very fine style.
Brutus vs Jonny. Brutus is being operated by Ulf Lorenz who assisted in the
parallelisation of the program at the University of Paderborn (Germany). Jonny
is the work of Johannes Zwanzger (right).
All
games are being transmitted live on the Playchess.com server. This includes
audio commentary by GM Peter Wells and video impressions from the tournament
hall.
In order to follow the games you can use Fritz or any Fritz-compatible program (Shredder, Junior, Tiger, Hiarcs) to follow the action, or download a free trial client here.
