Author: Chris Carson
Date: 20:06:55 07/18/00
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On July 18, 2000 at 22:54:22, Jorge Pichard wrote: > GM - Nick de firmian author of MCO-14 and who worked with the IBM Team as the >specialist who prepared Deep Blue's special opening moves for its two victories >explained on his introductory of his latest Modern chess Opening that Kasparov >played much worse than usual, trying faulty Anti-computer strategy when he would >likely have won by normal play. Later on on page 87 of his MCO 14th Edition he >explained that on the second game where Kasparov's lost to deep Blue Deep Blue >emerged with a large opening advantage (before it even began to think" ) which >put kasparov in a hole. In that game Kasparov using the closed defense of the >smylov variation faced a prepared opening by De Firmian where deep Blue vs >Kasparov played 19.a4 Nh4?1 20. Nxh4 Qxh4 21.Qe2 Qd8 22.b4 Qc7 23.Rec1 c4 >24.Ra3 Rec8 25.Rca1 +- and white won in 45 moves. As I explained in 3. Kasparov >was a single opponent known to the team of Deep Blue specially where Nick de >Firmian prepared a special opening lines in case Kasparov dicided to play the >closed defense of the Ruy Lopez which he did. It is very different when you have >to face 9 different opponents as deep Junior did at the Dortmund without >preparing any special opening lines against any of the opponents, but the humans >opponents some like Kramnik decided to play a very effective Anti-Computer >strategy such as the stone Wall Defense. > >Pichard. > This is a very good point by GM De Firmian. The IBM team had a huge advangate that the DJ team did not. 97 DB had the advantage of preparation against Kasparov and no games for Kasparov to prepare with. If Kasparov could have practiced against DB the way DJ is out there, the result would have different (in my opinion). :) This was an awsome performance by DJ. Played toe to toe with the top GM's! :) Best Regards, Chris Carson
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