Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:29:47 07/19/00
Go up one level in this thread
On July 19, 2000 at 07:23:00, blass uri wrote: >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 How would Kasparov prepare for a match against Shirov, if he (Shirov) took off for six months to prepare? Would that then be "unfair"??? Not knowing what your opponent is going to do is _one_ issue. It is not the _only_ issue... IE didn't Kasparov play things he had never played before? How could the DB guys prepare for _that_???
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.