Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 11:57:33 07/23/00
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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 Trying out the positions after Nxe6 in comp-comp games is extremely far from a refutation of the sacrifice! You're best off analyzing it as a human, I'd think. Dave
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