Kaspy vs. DJ; Game # 4

Game FOUR (#4) is (was) slated for Sunday; February 02, 2003.
(Approximately 3:30 PM; Eastern Time - - the first game started a little late.)

Deep_Junior (Computer) (2702) - GM Garry Kasparov (2847)
[B44]
X3D "Man vs. Machine" Match
New York City, NY; [USA]
(Round/game # 4) 02.02.2003

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, {D?}
What does this move accomplish?
12...0-0; 13.Be3 Rc8; 14.Qd2 Nce5; 15.b3 Nf6; 16.f3 Qc7; {Diag?}
Somewhere in here, it would seem that Garry should play ....b5. (!)
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,
21...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,
57...hxg4; 58.hxg4 Kg7; 59.Rb3 Rc6; 60.g5 f5; 61.Rb1, (Draw.)
Game drawn, by agreement. ½ - ½

(Replay the game on the ChessBase website, with light annotations. Click HERE.
It is not even clear who did this analysis, the page does not really indicate this.)

My take on this game?

I did not get to watch this game as my computer had crashed, but I went over this game several times and I also read all the commentary on this game. It seemed that Kasparov is suffering the same fate as Kramnik, i.e., until he lost to the computer ... he played almost without fear. After both had lost a game to the computer, they seemed to play the next contest in a slightly different manner than before their loss.

After his loss to the box in the previous game, Kasparov - from the pictures, and the game - did not seem to play with quite the same gusto that he had displayed earlier. His play was somewhat tentative, surely against any weak human he would have opened the game with ...b5 at the appropriate point. Eventually the computer opened the game, and came close to winning, but careful play by Kasparov saved the half-point.

Kasparov, Deep Junior draw game four

03.02.2003 After two rest days and a devastating loss Garry Kasparov withstood considerable pressure to salvage a draw. In front of a packed audience commentators Ashley, Seirawan, Benjamin, Jennifer and Greg Shahade and Susan Polgar confessed that they had no idea what was going on. (Click here.)
(From the ChessBase web site.)

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