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The twelfth Man-Computer Chess Tournament from April 1997 opened with a special event: two of the world's best grandmasters, Viswanathan Anand and Jan Timman played a clock simulation against six of the strongest chess programs at the time. When Timman had the white pieces against a computer, Anand had black and vice versa. It took the grandmaster from Madras only 2.5 hours to achieve a 4-2 victory (3 wins, 2 draws, 1 loss). The final result could have been more impressive had he not mixed up his moves against Genius, resulting in material loss and a hopeless position.
Jan Timman had a much harder time against the PC programs, and unfortunately made too many mistakes. He scored only one win, two draws and three losses. Both grandmasters lost to Genius and both GMs defeated the current world champion Fritz.
After this performance, the real Aegon Computer Chess Tournament began with 50 human chess players against as many computers. In this video, we see Frederic Friedel, Dieter Steinwender, Jan Louwman, Jeroen Noomen, Kees Sio (as a spectator), David Bronstein, Bart Weststrate, Frans Morsch, Ed Schröder, Johan de Koning, Hans van der Zijden, Cock de Gorter, Mark Uniacke, Chrilly Donninger (in Tyrolean attire), John van der Wiel, Sofia Polgar, and many other famous coryphies, among others.
This video of approx. 24 minutes has been on YouTube since 2013, as I gave this video to chess programmer Ed Schröder as a gift at the time. It does not take away from the fact that I still would like to present this video again via my own database.
For more information, see: Chessprogramming.org: Aegon_1997
and in the Dutch language: CSVN: Aegon_1997
With kind regards from historian Hein Veldhuis