Author: blass uri
Date: 04:23:00 07/19/00
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On July 19, 2000 at 06:50:02, Graham Laight wrote: >On July 18, 2000 at 18:18:30, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>Most people are ignoring the fact that what Mr Amir has accomplished with his >>Deep Junior program three years after Deep Blue defeated Kasparov, is not an >>easy task. Three years has passed by, in which most GMs have had plenty of >>practices using Anti-Computer Knowledges, since Kasparov last played Deeper Blue >>II in 1997. If Deep Blue was still available and confronted the same GMs that >>were in Dortmund it would have not score as good as Deep Junior. Mainly for >>these reasons. >> >>1. More Anti computer knowledges is known now than back in 1997. > >I'm sorry, but I feel an irresistible urge to take issue with this point. > >I re-read much of Daniel King's book about the GK V DB '97 encounter last night, >all written straight after the event, and I have to say that all of the issues >we've been discussing (closed positions, king attacks etc) are put down in this >book as "known anti-computer strategies". The strategy was known but kasparov could not know which strategy is going to work against Deeper blue because he could not buy it. players could play Deep Junior at home so they could know better which strategy is going to work against it(not every anti-computer strategy worked against it). Uri
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