Author: Graham Laight
Date: 09:12:43 01/13/00
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On January 13, 2000 at 08:12:07, Amir Ban wrote: >>I remember discussing this in a thread before the '97 DB v GK. A consensus >>developed that DB should move quickly, since more thinking time would give it >>relatively little move improvement, but the speed would lower GKs ELO because he >>would not have time to think on the opponent's time. >> >>In the event, this is what happened. DB made most of its moves in under 1 >>minute. The longest think it had was seven minutes. The strategy worked - GK had >>time difficulties in some of the games, and consequently made weaker moves than >>usual. Source: Daniel King's book about the match. >> >>-g > >Deep Blue moved at around 3 minutes per move during the match. The longest it >took was 15 minutes for 35. Bxd6 in game 2. > >Amir I'm sure this is right. 7 minutes must have been the time for the longest moves in one of the games (or my memory is failing me). In which case, Daniel's remarks about DB keeping GK under pressure by constantly throwing moves back quickly, and not allowing him time to think, are misleading (at least to this reader!). -g
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