Looking for "titled vs microcomputer" tournament games 1990-2005

[Fritz 0]

Why this period ?
Because it was the period when microcomputers chess improved from under 2300 level to world champion level and over : Kramnik versus Deep Fritz, Bonn December 2006 (2 - 4).

As pointed in a past thread, software contribute to 2/3 of the rating progress and hardware 1/3.
Roughly, in 30 years, the improvement come from : 1200 rating points from the software and 600 RP from the hardware (CPU improvement + memory speed)

CPU timeline from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_I ... processors
1990 : 80486 become braodly available (33 Mhz then 50 Mhz in 1991, then 100 MHz in 1994)
1993 : Pentium started at 66 MHz, reached 100 MHz in 1994 to top at 233MMX in 1997
1997 : Pentium II from 233 MHz to 450 Mhz in 1998
1999 : Pentium III from 450 MHz to 1 Ghz in 2000
2000 : Pentium IV from 1.40 GHz to 2.8 GHz in 2002

If you know some tournaments that is not in this list yet, please post here.

Matches and tournaments already listed on https://www.chessprogramming.org/Tourna ... nd_Matches

Matches
Kasparov versus Chess Genius, 25 min, 1994 (½ - 1½)
Kasparov versus Deep Blue, Philadelphia 1996 (4 - 2)
David Bronstein vs MChess Pro, 1996 (1½ - ½)
Kasparov versus Deep Blue, New York 1997 (2½ - 3½)
HIARCS 6.0 defeated I.M. Deen Hergott 4-2 in 1997
Rebel vs Yusupov, Ischia 1997 (10½ - 6½)
Rebel vs Anand, Italy 1998 (5-3)
Rebel Monthly GM challenge (Various opponents) 1999-2000
GM John van der Wiel vs REBEL 2001 (2½ - 3½)
GM Loek van Wely vs REBEL, Maastricht February 2002 (2 - 2)
Christiansen vs Chessmaster 9000 September 2002 (1½ - 2½)
Kramnik vs Deep Fritz, Bahrain, October 2002 (4 - 4)
Bareev versus HIARCS 2003 (2 - 2)
Kasparov versus Deep Junior 2003 (3 - 3)
Kasparov versus X3D Fritz 2003 (2-2)

Tournaments
Aegon Tournaments (1986-1997)
Harvard Cup (rapid, 1989 to 1995)
Aubervilliers Rapid Open (rapid, 1981 to 1999)
ANU Carbon-Silicon Tournaments (1993-1996)
Human vs. Computer Match in Finland, 1996
Man vs Machine Team Championship (2004 and 2005)

Tournament soon to be added on the page :

Deep Thought 2 scored 2.5 against 7 strong players (average : 2514) , Hannover 1991: https://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Ha ... 1991/18664
Intel World Chess Express Challenge, Munich 1994 - 5 min blitz, Fritz won : https://www.wired.com/1995/02/chess/
Israeli league allows 1 computer in team in 2000: https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=112015
Closed titled tournaments in Argentina with 1 engine 2001-2009
28th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 7 – 16, 2000) with Junior : https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic297.html#2
Dutch Championship 2000 with Fritz (perf=2635) : https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic289.html#5
Intel Rapid Chess Grand Prix 1994 - London : https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessco ... id=1017131
Rebel vs titled : http://www.rebel.nl/resu.htm


Recently I found a lot of tournaments on 365chess.com not listed on CP yet

Debrecen from 1997 to 2000
https://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Po ... _2000/6592
https://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Po ... _1999/7526
https://www.365chess.com/tournaments/De ... _1998/9081
https://www.365chess.com/tournaments/De ... 1997/10843

Sweden 1995
https://www.365chess.com/tournaments/SS ... 1995/14272

Vantaa (Finland) 1996
https://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Va ... 1996/13112

Kasparov, G vs Comp Chess Genius 3.0, 1995
https://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Co ... 1995/14576

Franfurt CC Ordix Frankfurt 1997
https://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Fr ... 1997/10933

Samanel Cup
https://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Sa ... 1997/11480

Fritz 5.32 vs Judit Polgar, G/30, 5,5-2,5, 1999

[Ajedrecista]

Hello:

Fritz 5.32 vs Judit Polgar, G/30, 5,5-2,5, 1999

Thanks to your info, I found the match at TWIC 234:

The Week in Chess 234 — Judit Polgar - Fritz 5.32

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Judit Polgar lost an eight game rapidplay (30 min) exhibition match 5.5-2.5 against Fritz 5.32 in Hungary April 27-30th.

There was official coverage at: http://live.interware.hu/inddex.html

Fritz 5.32 specifications: the program was running on a Compaq DeskPro EN 6350 computer with a Pentium II, 350MHz processor and 128 MB RAM, of which 64 MB (65,536 KB) were used for hash table. The other parameters were normal. The Nimzo99 openings book was being used. (information Frederic Friedel)

Polgar, Judit  -  Fritz5         1/2   41  B47  Sicilian
Fritz5         -  Polgar, Judit  1/2   39  B40  Sicilian
Polgar, Judit  -  Fritz5         1/2   65  B42  Sicilian
Fritz5         -  Polgar, Judit  1-0   31  B40  Sicilian
Polgar, Judit  -  Fritz5         0-1   26  B48  Sicilian
Fritz5         -  Polgar, Judit  1-0   49  B16  Caro-Kann
Polgar, Judit  -  Fritz5         1-0   23  B83  Sicilian
Fritz5         -  Polgar, Judit  1-0   47  E97  Kings indian; Main line


Budapest HUN (HUN), iv 1999
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                            1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8 
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Fritz 5.32           ----    =   =   =   1   1   1   0   1   5.5  2818
Polgar, Judit  g HUN 2677    =   =   =   0   0   0   1   0   2.5  1859
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Where there is a link to a web that can be reached through The WayBack Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/19980425092 ... are.hu:80/

That tells Polgar played other 6-game match against a computer back in April, 1996. She won 4-2 against Junior. The moves of games 5 and 6 are not recorded in this web:

https://web.archive.org/web/19980129064 ... tml#game_1
https://web.archive.org/web/19980129064 ... tml#game_2
https://web.archive.org/web/19980129064 ... tml#game_3
https://web.archive.org/web/19980129064 ... tml#game_4
https://web.archive.org/web/19980129064 ... tml#game_5
https://web.archive.org/web/19980129064 ... tml#game_6

The Polgar-Junior match was also reported at TWIC 78:

The Week in Chess 78 — Junior vs Judit Polgar

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Man Machine challenges are almost becoming the norm on the internet.
To launch the Polgar's www page Judit Polgar took on Shay Bushinsky's
Junior program in a series of 6 rapid transit games. Hopefully
Shay will be able to report in more detail next week on this event.

http://live.xco.hu/index.html

Judit won the event 4-2.

Budapest (HUN), IV 1996.
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                            1   2   3   4   5   6
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Polgar, Judit  g HUN 2675   1   =   0   1   1   =   4.0
Junior               ----   0   =   1   0   0   =   2.0  2550
-------------------------------------------------------------

TWIC can be a valuable source of human-computer matches of those days.

Regards from Spain.

Ajedrecista.

[Vinvin]

Thanks to both of you !!