Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 12:42:21 01/15/01
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"..... Curiously though, none of the reviews I have seen comment on the ethics of Garry employing the services of Junior running on extremely powerful hardware, the moment the Russian became concerned about his prospects. Garry is quite open about this, so much so that I doubt whether his conscience was troubled at all about the propriety of using whatever assistance he could get in a match which, lest we forget, was billed as Kasparov against the World. With the benefit of hundreds of hours of computer analysis and huge endgame database, Kasparov was able to announce "forced mate in 25 moves" in the final position. Are we supposed to be impressed or disgusted, I wonder? He would not be able to come to this precise conclusion on his own if he were to analyse the position for the next thousand years. One cannot but conclude that the premise on which this match was sold to the public was fraudulent. Far from being one lonely individual pitting his wits against the world it was Team Kasparov with cybernetic assistance versus the rest. It was an interesting match for sure, but it was not what was claimed. Frederic Friedel of Germany correctly pointed out last week that Peter Leko missed a forced mate in 30 moves in one game of his match against Kramnik. If I told you that a good proportion of this columns readers would beat Herr Friedel soundly over the board you will probably get an idea of the extent of silicon incursion in today's chess."
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