The championship series will be held at the New York Athletic Club (NYAC) from January 26 to February 7, 2003, in 6 matches with classic time control.

X3D's multiple award-winning technologies transform video, games and movies from 2D to 3D in real time for computer, television and Internet broadcast. X3D algorithms achieve over 90 million complex calculations per second and allow images to float in the air, inside and in front of the screen.

The X3D system creates 3D depth-of field by altering the image shown on the monitor of any PC equipped with X3D's proprietary software. The viewer wears a pair of special glasses that syncs with the onscreen image. In a very high-tech version of the 3D process used in movie theaters many years ago, the images alternate many times per second, producing an amazingly lifelike 3D effect.

Since IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer initiated the "Man vs. Machine" chess challenge in May 1997, a new generation of supercomputers has been competing every year. Deep Junior, three-time world champion, won the last official world chess championship for computers in July 2002, in Maastricht, The Netherlands, against 18 other machines.