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Subject: Re: Position from game 1 of first DB-Kasparov match

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 22:26:31 01/12/00

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On January 12, 2000 at 16:39:22, Amir Ban wrote:

>On January 12, 2000 at 04:44:34, Peter Kappler wrote:
>
>>On January 11, 2000 at 06:58:28, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On January 11, 2000 at 05:25:49, Amir Ban wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 11, 2000 at 01:10:56, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Worst of all, I think he considered Deep Blue to be a micro program with a big
>>>>>box around it.  He really had no comprehension of how much better 200 Million
>>>>>NPS is than 200 Thousand NPS.  Statments about how {paraphrasing} "computers
>>>>>will never make a move like that" indicate to me that he prepared by playing
>>>>>against micros.  That is like preparing for Linares by running through a bunch
>>>>>of games with C club players.  Deep Blue will see things that other computers
>>>>>simply will not see without allowing absurd time intervals.  If he allowed the
>>>>>micros to think for one week per move he might get something commensurate.  But
>>>>>then, the playing experience would not be the same, because he would be
>>>>>operating at a slow, postal rate and have plenty of time to think through the
>>>>>possibilities.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>This has been said countless times before, and the follow up question: Show us
>>>>one move that Deep Blue (or Deep Thought) made that a micro needs a week to
>>>>find, has never been answered.
>>>>
>>>>Amir
>>>
>>>I pointed out one in the first match, in the game DB won, where Kasparov had a
>>>mate in 1 for about 10 moves.  A subtle rook move made the entire variation
>>>work, where the rook move preferred by the micros at the time would have
>>>resulted in deep trouble.  I don't recall the game now, but I remember that
>>>DB was white (again, in match 1 which it lost) and its king was hemmed in on
>>>the kingside with Kasparov threatening mate.  But he never got to play the
>>>mate...
>>>
>>
>>[Event "ACM Chess Challenge"]
>>[Site "Philadelphia Convention Center"]
>>[Date "96.02.10"]
>>[Round "1"]
>>[White "Deep Blue"]
>>[Black "Kasparov, Garry"]
>>[Opening "Alapin Sicilian"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>
>>1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. Be2 e6 7. h3 Bh5
>>8. O-O Nc6 9. Be3 cxd4 10. cxd4 Bb4 11. a3 Ba5 12. Nc3 Qd6 13. Nb5 Qe7
>>14. Ne5 Bxe2 15. Qxe2  O-O 16. Rac1 Rac8 17. Bg5 Bb6 18. Bxf6 gxf6
>>19. Nc4 Rfd8 20. Nxb6 axb6 21. Rfd1 f5 22. Qe3 Qf6 23. d5 Rxd5 24. Rxd5
>>exd5 25. b3 Kh8 26. Qxb6 Rg8 27. Qc5 d4 28. Nd6 f4 29. Nxb7 Ne5
>>30. Qd5 f3 31. g3 Nd3 32. Rc7 Re8 33. Nd6 Re1+ 34. Kh2 Nxf2 35. Nxf7+
>>Kg7 36. Ng5+ Kh6 37. Rxh7+ 1-0
>>
>>
>>The move Bob referred to is 32. Rc7, which was played by DB in this position.
>>
>>[D]6rk/1N3p1p/5q2/3Q4/3p4/PP1n1pPP/5P2/2R3K1 w - -
>>
>>6rk/1N3p1p/5q2/3Q4/3p4/PP1n1pPP/5P2/2R3K1 w - -
>>
>>If I recall correctly, all of the micros wanted to play 32. Rc6.
>>
>>--Peter
>
>Deep Junior wants to play Rc7 after 2:15 minutes.

Ooh, my modified Crafty finds Rc7 at 7:08. :)

Here's the line (after resolving fail-high):

12->   9:47   2.18   1. Rc7 Qe5 2. Qxe5+ Nxe5 3. Rc5 Nd3
                     4. Rf5 Rc8 5. Rxf3 Rc3 6. Nd6 Rxb3
                     7. a4 Kg7 8. Rxf7+

Jeremiah



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