Computer chess In January 2003, Garry Kasparov played Junior, another chess computer program, in New York City. The match ended 3–3. In November 2003, Garry Kasparov played X3D Fritz. The match ended 2–2. In 2005, Hydra, a dedicated chess computer with custom hardware and sixty-four processors and also winner of the 14th IPCCC in 2005, defeated seventh-ranked Michael Adams 5½–½ in a six-game match (though Adams' preparation was far less thorough than Kramnik's for the 2002 series). In November–December 2006, World Champion Vladimir Kramnik played Deep Fritz. This time the computer won; the match ended 2–4. Kramnik was able to view the
Computer Gaming World "Best Professional Adventure Gaming Magazine of 1987". "The New York Times" repeatedly praised CGW, placing it as one of the premier computer game publications of its time. In 1997 the newspaper called it "the leading computer game magazine", In 1999 "the bible of computer game purists", and in 2005 "one of the top computer game magazines". On August 2, 2006, Ziff Davis Media issued a press release detailing their plans to halt circulation of "Computer Gaming World". As part of a joint-venture project with Microsoft, Ziff Davis launched a new magazine dubbed "" in Fall of 2006. The new magazine