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Subject: Re: Deep Blue would kick his arse all over again :)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:53:27 06/03/99

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On June 02, 1999 at 23:44:51, Prakash Das wrote:

>On June 02, 1999 at 20:41:02, Paul Richards wrote:
>
>>Sorry, couldn't resist. :)  But I definitely think Garry would be more
>>afraid of DB than Anand, Shirov or anybody else.  He would be the one
>>trying to keep from cracking and folding up. :)  Also since it beat
>>him in match play already, it owes him a rematch for the title. :)
>>(putting flameproof suit on...)
>
> Before making your cute statements, have you considered the fact that Kasparov
>was the first player bold enough to tackle an unknown beast called DB?
>Now that he has done so, and produced a few games and we have a (slim)
>illustration of how DB plays, you see other players crawling out from the mud
>clamoring to challenge DB.


This is wrong.  Kasparov was challenged by the DB team, as the best human
chessplayer in the world.  No one else had the opportunity to challenge DB.
If Karpov had defeated Kasparov (if Kasparov hadn't left FIDE) then Karpov
would have been playing DB and not Kasparov...



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