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Subject: Re: Deeper Gary has just been released

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:36:27 03/03/99

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On March 03, 1999 at 14:51:25, blass uri wrote:

>
>On March 03, 1999 at 12:22:42, Michael Ginat wrote:
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>>It's a pity someone like Karpov didn't get a chance to play Deeper Blue - I
>>can't imagine him resigning a drawn position, and he would be able to steer the
>>games along positional paths without playing nonsense openings.
>
>I do not think that karpov is good against computers
>he played a game against Deep thought with white in 1990 and won a drawn rook
>endgame only because of a mistake of deep thought.
>
>This is the position when Deep thought did the mistake:
>8/5k2/R5pp/3pP3/p2r1PK1/8/7P/8 b - - 0 1
>
>Deep thought played Rc4 when g5 was the right move.
>
>Commercial programs avoid the mistake of Deep thought.
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>For example Fritz5(16 bit) has no problem to play g5.
>
>Uri

I have played some games against Karpov.  And believe me, he is the strongest
GM I have ever had the chance to play.  the move g5 is trivial to find, and
why DT didn't find it is anyone's guess.  That is the only move crafty ever
considers, from .01 seconds to 1 hour, so no idea what DT did wrong...  But
just because Karpov was lucky to draw doesn't mean he can't play chess, let
me guarantee you.  Because _that_ would be a grave mistake to think.  (Btw,
g5 may also draw, just looking at this.  It is better than Rc4, but whether it
is winning or not isn't real clear to me after only looking a minute or two.)

Thing that most amazes me about Karpov is not only can he play that "karpov-like
boring, careful style of chess" but he can also come out slugging and play wild
attacking chess too...  Something not many know.



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