Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:32:03 07/19/00
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On July 19, 2000 at 14:17:02, B. Clark wrote: >On July 18, 2000 at 23:06:55, Chris Carson wrote: > >>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 > >One thing that is often overlooked is that Kasparov totally choked in the final >game against DB. It wasn't necessarily outstanding play by DB, but rather >Kasparov falling for a well known trap that most 2100 players would have >avoided. > >Brett Maybe or maybe not. It is also possible that this was a prepared anti-computer trap that backfired. Well-known commercial programs can't win with white in that position. If he used Fritz as a training aid, and discovered that this might be a possible trap to spring if circumstances were dire, who knows... It could have been a mistake, or a clever plan that blew up. Either way it was a loss, of course...
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