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Subject: Re: Fritz is a GM

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 15:01:10 07/21/98

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On July 21, 1998 at 07:43:33, blass uri wrote:

>
>On July 21, 1998 at 07:01:20, Amir Ban wrote:
>
>>On July 20, 1998 at 21:34:57, Don Dailey wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Although I don't have the same respect for Deep Thought that Bob Hyatt
>>>does, I still have a lot of respect for it.  It has beaten my program
>>>twice, and both times probably prevented my program from becoming
>>>world champion.  Two games is a small sample to be sure, but common
>>>sense makes me believe this was no fluke.
>>>
>>
>>I still wonder sometime why you played 14...Kh8? against it in Hong-Kong. In the
>>opening at least, DB made every effort to lose this game. Didn't you want to win
>>it ?
>please post this game
>>


[Event "World Computer Chess Championship"]
[Site "Chinese University HKG"]
[Date "1995.05.25"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Deep Blue"]
[Black "Star Socrates"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e3 e6 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. Nbd2 Bd6 6. e4 e5 7. O-O O-O 8. exd5
Nxd4 9. c4 Bg4 10. Re1 Nd7 11. h3 Bh5 12. g4 Bg6 13. Bxg6 fxg6 14. Kg2 Kh8 15.
Nxd4 exd4 16. Ne4 Ne5 17. Bg5 Qd7 18. f4 Nxc4 19. Qxd4 Nb6 20. Nxd6 Qxd6 21.
Re5 Rae8 22. Rae1 Rxe5 23. Rxe5 Nc8 24. Re6 Qd7 25. Kh2 Kg8 26. Qe5 Qa4 27.
Qxc7 Qxa2 28. Qe5 Qa4 29. d6 Qc2+ 30. Kg3 Qd1 31. Kh4 Qd2 32. f5 Qf2+ 33. Qg3
Qd4 34. Qe3 Qd5 35. Qd2 Qxd2 36. Bxd2 Nb6 37. fxg6 hxg6 38. Kg5 Rd8 39. Bc3 Rd7
40. Kxg6 Kf8 41. Bd4 Nd5 42. Kf5 b6 43. h4 Nb4 44. h5 Nc6 45. Be3 Nd8 46. h6
Rf7+ 47. Ke4 g5 48. Rg6 Rh7 49. Bxg5 Nb7 50. Kd5 Kf7 51. Rf6+ 1-0



>I think deep blue was unlucky in the last game against fritz3
>FEN:2rqkb2/5p1p/p1npb1r1/1p1Np3/4Pp2/N2B4/PPP2PPP/R2Q1R1K
>white(deep blue) to move
>
>I think it did the decisive tactical mistake in this position
>16.c4 because it did not see in time 16...Qh4 17.g3 Qh3 18.Rg1 Qxh2+
>is winnining for black
>

16.c4 is the losing move indeed. 16.g3 white is probably okay. This was analyzed
and debated already. Luck has nothing to do with it. If you make tactical
mistakes of this kind, you can expect to lose to a program like Fritz even on
P90.

Amir




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