New York Mayor Bloomberg's official announcement
| Title | The FIDE Man vs Machine World Chess Championship | |
| Event | Man vs Machine The Rematch | |
| Sponsors | Federation
Internationale des Echecs (FIDE), X3D Technologies Corporation |
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| Producer | X3D Technologies Corporation | |
| Sanctioned by | Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) President: Kirsan Ilyumzhinov; International Computer Games Association (ICGA) President: David Levy; The US Chess Federation (USCF) President: John McCrary | |
| Players | Garry Kasparov #1 player in the world for the past 18 years |
Deep Junior Reigning World Computer Champion |
| Venue | New York Athletic Club (NYAC) 180 Central Park South New York, NY 10019 | |
| Dates | Sunday 26th January Friday 7th February 2003 | |
| Time controls | The time control shall be 40 moves in 2 hours for each player, followed by 20 moves in one hour for each player, followed by 30 minutes for each player. Sudden death | |
| Order of play | Game 1: Sunday January 26th Game 2: Tuesday January 28th Game 3: Thursday January 30th Game 4: Sunday February 2nd Game 5: Wednesday February 5th Game 6: Friday February 7th |
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| Starting time | 3:30 p.m. EST (20:30h London, 21:30 Paris/Berlin) | |
| Ceremonies | Thu 23rd Jan press conference & opening
ceremony New York City Fri 7th Feb closing ceremony & prize giving New York City |
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| Prizes | Total one million dollars, $500,000 Kasparov fee, prize money $500,000 ($300,000 winner, $200,000 loser, $250,000 draw) | |
| Arbiter | Geurt Gijssen | |
| Rules and Arbitration committee: To be announced | ||
| X3D Spokesperson | Elliott Klein, CEO. Tel: 1-646-825-6170 Email: quarterback@x3dworld.com |
| X3D Media | Belinda Banks Tel: 1-718-320-4898 |
| X3D Producer | Bill Drury Tel: 1-646-283-1594 Email: Druryb@x3Dworld.com |
| Kasparov interviews | SMSI, Inc., Owen Williams Email: SMSIINC@ix.netcom.com |
| Junior interviews | Amir Ban & Shay Bushinsky Email: shay@chessdev.com |
