Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:34:39 07/19/00
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On July 19, 2000 at 16:06:46, Victor Valenzia wrote: >On July 19, 2000 at 14:33:00, blass uri wrote: > >>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 >> >>Kasparov did not play well in the last game(I think that he played worse than an >>IM in this game) but he did not fall for a well known trap. >> >> >>Nxe6 is a bad move of Deeper blue and kasparov did not defend well. >> >>It is not a well known trap. >>If you try the position after Nxe6 in comp-comp games you may discover that >>black is winning. >> >>kasparov did some mistakes in this game when fxe6 was probably the first of them >> >>Uri > >You may be right, but there is no question that Kasparov played far below his >ability in this match. Call it "nerves", "choking", "being psyched out", or >whatever; the result is the same. I have often wondered if a player like >Karpov, who by nature is a quiet, positional player, would have fared better >against Deep Blue. > >Victor For a game, probably. A match? Probably not. I believe that it is really mentally straining to play against a beast like DB, which is _very_ tactically aware of everything going on. You have to check and re-check _every_ variation before committing to avoid giving the machine a crack to drive a wedge into... I think age then becomes important, as the mental exertion is so high, that age will result in a quick collapse after only a few games...
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