Live from Graz – Fritz and Shredder lead

• All games so far in ChessBase format (with computer protocols)

Picture Gallery

Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, whose program Shredder is the most boring in the tournament – it just goes in there, outplays the opponent and wins in fantastic style. In every single game. Okay, except for a misstep against Fritz.

A somewhat dejected Thomas Mayer (right) and his program Quark take a sound beating by the Junior team from Israel, with Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky (left). We wonder what the Senior team would have done.

In yesterday's report we published a picture of GM Boris Alterman taking part in a test by the University of Graz to measure the brain patterns of the grandmaster during five minute games against a computer. Apparently we got it all wrong – a number of readers came up with more plausible interpretations. For Marc Margolies of Scarsdale, New York, who wrote: "What you wrote in your article is just some hooey that the researchers told the press. The truth is that every time Junior loses a pawn, Boris gets a small electrical charge to his brain. Incidentally when Juior captures a minor piece, the researchers feed Boris a beer stick sausage! It's supposed to improve the performance of the Junior program. Great photo! Put in in the Chessbase Calendar!"

Diep, with a name that was extracted from it's author Vincent Diepeveen (left). Here the Dutch five-hundred-processor program is facing the Austrian eight-processor machine Brutus, operated by a sullen Ulf Lorenz. On the right Chrilly Donninger would seem distracted from the black-and-white checkered board...

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.

Links

• Official web site
• Schedule
• Video trailer (WMV format) by Imagewerk