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Subject: Re: Kasparov still speaks about human interference with Deep Blue!!

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 02:32:51 12/23/98

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On December 22, 1998 at 01:33:11, Jouni Uski wrote:

>It was obvious that there was human interference in the [return] match with Deep
>Blue. Nobody paid attention to it because I lost
> and that’s all anyone cared about. Game two, for example. And then in game
>five, 11...h5 could never be played by a computer!
> We’ve tried that position on many programs and never, NEVER will a computer
>even consider that move, it’s too positional. It’s
> not even the 40th move selected by a computer, 40th! And IBM never releases any
>information! Show me how the computer
> comes up with ...h5, let’s see the printouts!" [See game below.]
>

In fact this is one of the four moves for which IBM gave Kasparov printouts.

I didn't find anything unusual in the printouts for this move, from the
technical angle. The chess part of it was over my head. I heard Kasparov explain
why he found the move extraordinary and suspicious, but didn't follow it. It had
something to do with preventing (or facilitating) the placement of a white (or
black) minor somewhere on the king-side, but this seemed to be completely
out-of-sight yet, so it didn't make sense to Kasparov.

Sorry for the confused explanation, that's what I remember. Maybe someone
understands this.

Amir



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