Author: Uri Blass
Date: 20:51:44 04/17/05
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On April 16, 2005 at 10:50:01, Mike Byrne wrote: >On April 16, 2005 at 07:49:08, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >>On April 15, 2005 at 20:51:07, Mike Byrne wrote: >> >>>Five years ago , Hsu's open letter to the world regarding a possible rematch >>>with Deep Blue. >>> >>> >>>http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/feng.html >> >> >> >>Mike, the whole topic is uninteresting. > >For an uninteresting topic , you posted long reply. It is interesting idea that >you mention this "scintific experiment" belief that you believe Kasparov held >about the match. I attended Game 6 in Phildadelphia in 1996. After the winning >the game and match , he talked at length to the 500_ attendees about his feeling >regarding the games and the match. He repeatedly refer to the match as an >"experiment" and as a science endevaor. > >But he would be naive to think that the IBM team was not interested in winning. >Note I refernce the IBM team and not the IBM Corporation. IBM was getting >tremendous corporate PR from these events. They were covered worldwide , their >Deep Blue webpages were getting millions of hits per day during the matches. >They were "winning" whether Deep Blue won or lost. But as soon as Kasparov >accused the IBM team of potentially cheating in the match, that would have >turned the IBM Corporate executives and PR types totally against any further >involement with Kasparov period. The one thing worse than no PR is bad PR. The >accusations were bad PR for IBM and that is what killed any possible rematches. >They had a great thing that could have gone on for years if Kasparov was not so >careless in his unfounded accusations. > >Kasparov himself crushed the golden egg that was there for him but as you out >put it, he was mentally psyched out by DB that he played very un-Kasparov like >and certainly was not his best form. I also think that him pacticing against a >Fritz 5 ( maybe a 150 Mhz Pentrium) wa the absolutly the worse thing for him to >do to prepare for the match. To me, from a distance, it looked like he >developed pet strategies (unorthodox openings, closed games, etc) against Fritz >that he then tried to apply to Deep Blue. But Deep Blue was not Fritz 5, they >were light years apart. > >Even now, when one looks at Game 2 of the second match - the first alledge >suspect move was 36. axb5. The natural move here is Ob6. Most programs show >that Qb6 is the best move. Deep Blue played axb5 - a much better move in my >opinion than Qb6. I do not agree with that opinion I never saw an evidence that axb5 is better Uri
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