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Subject: Re: Kasparov played much worse than usual, According to de Firmian !

Author: blass uri

Date: 12:20:18 07/23/00

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On July 23, 2000 at 14:57:33, Dave Gomboc 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
>
>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

I believe that Nxe6 is a bad move.

I do not know about games when humans won programs with white after Nxe6
fxe6.
I may change my mind if I see games when humans win computers with white.

Uri



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