4th February, 2003

WORLD No.1 Garry Kasparov brought back an old favourite of the Sicilian
Hedgehog from his world championship battles of yore with arch-rival
Anatoly Karpov, as he attempted to lure Deep Junior down a complex
manoeuvring path in the hope of outwitting the computer.

However, in a six-hour epic played out to a full-house at the exclusive
New York Athletic Club in Manhattan, the silicon beast proved to be more
than a match for Kasparov as the longest game of the contest so far
ended in a hard-fought 61-move draw.

Both Kasparov, 39, considered to be the greatest player in the history
of the game, and Deep Junior, the three-time world computer chess
champion now have two points each with just two games left to play in
the $1m six-game FIDE Man vs. Machine Ultimate World Championship match.

Kasparov, who is eager to win the match in order to erase the bitter
memory of his 1997 shock loss to IBM's Deep Blue, told reporters after
the game that, "he firmly believes that Deep Junior has problems playing
black," - and heavily hinted he was ready to "put everything on the
line" on Wednesday, when he has white for the final time in this
intriguing showdown between man and machine.

DEEP JUNIOR - G Kasparov
FIDE Man-Machine, (4)
Sicilian Hedgehog
1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 e6 5 Nb5 d6 6 c4 Nf6 7 N1c3 a6 8 Na3
Nd7 9 Nc2 Be7 10 Be2 b6 11 0-0 Bb7 12 h3 0-0 13 Be3 Rc8 14 Qd2 Nce5 15
b3 Nf6 16 f3 Qc7 17 Rac1 Rfe8 18 a3 Ned7 19 Rfd1 Qb8 20 Bf2 Rcd8 21 b4
Ba8 22 a4 Rc8 23 Rb1 Qc7 24 a5 bxa5 25 b5 Bb7 26 b6 Qb8 27 Ne3 Nc5 28
Qa2 Nfd7 29 Na4 Ne5 30 Nc2 Ncd7 31 Nd4 Red8 32 Kh1 Nc6 33 Nxc6 Rxc6 34
Kg1 h6 35 Qa3 Rdc8 36 Bg3 Bf8 37 Qc3 Ne5 38 c5 Nd7 39 Qxa5 Nxc5 40 Nxc5
Rxc5 41 Qa4 R5c6 42 Bf2 d5 43 Bxa6 Bc5 44 Bxc5 Rxc5 45 Bxb7 Qxb7 46 exd5
exd5 47 Qa7 R5c7 48 Qxb7 Rxb7 49 Rxd5 Rc6 50 Rdb5 h5 51 Kf2 Re6 52 f4 g6
53 Kg3 Kg7 54 Kh4 Kh6 55 R1b4 Rd6 56 g3 f6 57 g4 hxg4 58 hxg4 Kg7 59 Rb3
Rc6 60 g5 f5 61 Rb1 draw

JOHN B HENDERSON