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Subject: Re: DID KASPAROV REALLY MISSED 25..F4,?I THINK THE MATCH IS FIXED

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 21:10:18 01/28/03

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On January 28, 2003 at 23:59:33, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 28, 2003 at 22:03:56, Carlos Lantigua wrote:
>
>>Let´s be sincere, a super GM of the calibre of Kasparov couldnt missed the
>>winning move 25, imagine if Kasparov would won game 2, the match wouldnt be
>>interesting for the public and for the comercial interest of DJ, Kasparov and DJ
>>team agree he would win the match on a very narrow margin, perhaps 1 or 1/2,
>>thus Kasparov and DJ would be happy.
>>
>>PS, excuseme my bad English.)
>
>After a very deep computer search, an advantage of less than a pawn is shown for
>f4.  I suspect that one hour per move computer search by a very fast machine
>with a very good program will find at least one mistake in every GM match with
>more than a trivial number of moves.
>
>On the other hand, a super GM spending one hour per move will also surely find
>at least one mistake in every computer/computer match.
>
>Kasparov's ego should be apparent from when he lost the second Deep Blue match.
>Even if he agreed to throw it, I suspect he would go ahead and clobber anyway if
>he could.
>
>He has a win as white and a draw as black.  Quite frankly, I think both parties
>have performed superbly up to this point.
>
>Can you draw Kasparov?
>
>Surely, Kasparov has prepared like a madman.  He does not want the embarassment
>of losing to a machine again.  I doubt if a billion dollars would make him throw
>the match.  He already has money.  What will he sell his reputation for?
>
>Be serious.

Quite correct! And more than reputation, would be lost.
Why people don't get this is incomprehensible!

Terry



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