Author: Ralph E. Carter
Date: 14:58:58 12/23/98
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On December 23, 1998 at 09:49:35, Steve Lopez wrote: >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. > >Dr. John Nunn's explanation of 11...h5 (from ChessBase Magazine): > >"A surprising move from a computer, but a good one. The computer puts its finger >on the slight weakness created by the move h3. This means that after a later >...h4, White will be forced to either defend the g3-pawn or play g4, but then >the square f4 is accessible to Black's pieces, especially the knight on g6. Some >human players who like pushing their rook's pawns (Speelman, for example) might >also have played this move, but it is certainly interesting that Deep Blue finds >this quite sophisticated positional idea." So... Where WAS Mr. Speelman on the night in question. Hmm...
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