Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:11:04 12/23/98
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On December 23, 1998 at 05:32:51, Amir Ban wrote: >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 The thing that so amuses me about how Kasparov keeps putting his foot firmly in his mouth is that someone on r.g.c.c reported that Junior 5 plays h5 in a relatively short time (under sixty seconds I think, although I don't remember the machine.) Kasparov's problem is that he doesn't have a clue about computers, and he is trying to attribute some deep dark understanding of the position to the machine, when it is nothing more than king-safety most likely that led to this. He needs (as do other GM players) to learn that "never" is a *very* long time, and "no program" covers a really wide range of programs. Either phrase is a sure indication that the sentence they are contained in is most likely dead false.
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