Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 09:49:54 05/02/98
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On May 02, 1998 at 10:52:14, Joe McCarron wrote: >On May 02, 1998 at 00:46:52, Havergal Brian wrote: > >>No one knows whether DB was superior or not. >>Sure, I've seen and analyzed the games in detail. >>Kasparov """""seemed""""" to have the advantage in several...but didn't. >>Sort of like Denver beating Green Bay...who knew??? But it happened. >>We will probably never know who was """"really"""" superior. Kasparov >>and IBM made sure of that. >>I for one wouldn't bet against the machine...Kasparov cracked after just >>6 games against it. 24 would put him in the nuthouse. > >I wonder about this. I sortof think a lonfger match would be in Garys >favor. He always seemed able to play up to his competition and >ultimately surpass it. His first marathon match with Karpov is a case >in point. But he also pulled ahead late against Vishy and in his first >match against Deep blue. I know he was younger in the karpov match but >I'm not sure that matters. Since Deep blue plays so little I think he >would be able to learn as he goes against it. > >Does anyone know if the chess games in the the first Karpov Kasparov >match got better earlier in the match or later? The point is the extremely different kind of opponent DB is compared with Karpov or any other GMI. What destroyed Kasparov faith in himself was his feeling -in general a correct one- that DB was unbeatable in the horizon of 12 or 14 plys, that he was beyond any hope to catch him with a tactical shot. Look at the game DB won in the first match. Who in the world would had played that nonchalant capture of B pawn with the knight in the same moment Kasparov was aiming all his pieces againts the King? My guess is Kasparov would have lost any confidence or will to fight sooner or later even if he had got to hold thing in toguether in the first 6 games. No matter how much can be said in favour of strategic advantage of human GMI, most chess games are decided in tactical terms even in that high level of competition. Kapàrov faced the same trouble we, experts level players, face each time against Rebel 9 or M-Chess; maybe we know or believe we know more of "finesse", but we are crushed the same with just losing a miserable pawn. Fernando
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