Author: Graham Laight
Date: 06:56:57 04/05/01
I apologise if this has already been discussed and I missed it, but I spoke to
GM Daniel King (author of "Kasparov V Deeper Blue") on Wednesday, and he told me
that there was a real possibility that DB might be resurrected to play Kramnik.
Do any of you guys know anything about this, please?
He also expressed the view that VK would be a better opponent for a computer
than GK, whom he dismissed as "too emotional" for this kind of game.
He was quite emphatic that the DB team didn't cheat in '97 (a viewpoint I
wholeheartedly agree with), and he also said that it was the most exciting chess
event he'd ever been to - a real media circus, and GK becoming almost a sick man
(my paraphrase of his description) by the end of the week.
That's all the (new) DB stuff we discussed, but in case any of you are
interested, here's a copy of the e-mail I sent to my friends about the event on
Tuesday evening:
*** start of quoted text ***
I played the English grandmaster Daniel King last night, at the Copthorne Hotel
in Brierley Hill.
The event was the VBUG conference ( http://www.vbug.co.uk/ ) - and Danny was the
evening entertainment.
I took along my copy of one of his books ("Gary Kasparov v Deeper Blue") for him
to sign, and he asked whether I'd nicked it, since he'd brought 2 copies along
as prizes for the two best players! He was gratified that someone had bought the
book and read it though.
The format of the game was that there were (initially!) 17 players, and Danny
would walk from board to board in turn. When he got to your board, he expected
you to make a move, to which he would then reply.
Although I didn't win a book, witnesses agreed afterwards that for the 1st 15
moves or so, Danny spent longer considering his replies to my moves than he did
at anyone else's board!
Overall result: Daniel King 17, Stooges 0.
[Event "Simultaneous"]
[Site "Copthorne Hotel"]
[Date "2001.04.03"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Graham Laight"]
[Black "Daniel King"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. Bc4 e6 4. Nf3 {-0.04 } Nc6 {-0.04 }
5. O-O {-0.01 } d6 {-0.01 } 6. Bg5 {-0.01 } Be7 {-0.01 } 7. Bxe7 {-0.01 }
Qxe7 {-0.01 } 8. Nxd4 {-0.01 } Nf6 {-0.01 } 9. Re1 { 0.11 }
O-O { 0.11 } 10. Nc3 {-0.04 } Bd7 {-0.04 } 11. Bb5 {-0.01 }
Rac8 { 0.08 } 12. Nxc6 { 0.00 } Bxc6 { 0.10 } 13. Bxc6 {-0.06 }
Rxc6 {-0.06 } 14. e5 {-0.04 } dxe5 { 0.32 } 15. Rxe5 { 0.32 }
Rd8 { 0.32 } 16. Qe2 {-0.37 } Rcd6 {-0.37 } 17. Rd1 {-0.32 }
Rxd1+ { 0.45 } 18. Nxd1 { 0.45 } Qb4 { 0.45 } 19. h3 { 0.45 }
Rd2 { 0.48 } 20. Qf3 { 0.48 } h6 { 0.48 } 21. c3 {-0.59 }
Qd6 {-0.59 } 22. Ne3 {-0.54 } Qxe5 { 6.00 } 23. Nc4 { 6.00 }
Qe1+ { 6.00 } 24. Kh2 { 6.00 } Rxf2 { 6.00 } 25. Qxb7 { 6.00 }
Rf1 { 6.00 } 26. h4 { 6.00 } Qxh4+ { 6.00 }
0-1
At move 22, I nudged my neighbours and told them that Daniel had made a mistake.
He appeared to have allowed me to fork his queen and rook. I had failed to
notice, of course, that he could move his queen to a position where he could
check me.
After the game, I asked Daniel if he'd realised that at move 22, he'd allowed me
to fork him, and to my amazement, he went to a chess board and set up the
position in a heartbeat! (I couldn't do that - and I'd only been playing one
opponent!). He replayed my disasterous move 22, played his reply, did the knight
fork, and the following check, and looked at me as if to say, "What's the issue
here"!
I also had a chance to discuss the '97 Deeper Blue v Gary Kasparov game, which
Danny attended (and wrote the book about - which includes an exclusive interview
with Gary after game 4 of the match). I also realised that Daniel had been one
of the many chess megastars I'd seen dropping in at the "Mind Sports Olympiad"
last year. He'd looked over some of the games in the World Micro Computer Chess
Championships, but not one I'd been operating Crafty in, unfortunately.
It was an uplifting evening of mental stimulation - to be recommended to anyone
who enjoys chess. At the very least, I got a free beer and sandwich.
ps - I'll be sending this game to Chessbase - they're sure to want an important
game like this in their chess games database!
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