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Subject: A message from the ancient past

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 08:52:35 07/22/02

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The two you entirely miss the point of Kasparov's suspicion, sigh...

Lesson 61, now pay attention my pupils :)

[d]r1r1q1k1/6p1/p2b1p1p/1p1PpP2/PPp5/2P4P/R1B2QP1/R5K1 w - - id DEEP BLUE -
Kasparov,G;

Position before 36.axb5

Here DB for a long time showed the following main-line:

36.Qb6 Qe7 37.axb5 Rab8 38.Qxa6 e4 39.Bxe4 Qe5 40.Bf3 Rcd8 41.Qa7 Qc3 42.Bh5

Now let's have a look at the main-line shall we?

After 39...Qe5 we get:

[d]1rr3k1/6p1/Q2b1p1p/1P1PqP2/1Pp1B3/2P4P/R5P1/R5K1 w - -

As you can see black has sacrificed 3 (!!) pawns for a king attack. And this my
pupils is what Kasparov could not believe, a computer sacrificing 3 pawns and so
he started asking questions how that could be.

The refusal of IBM to answer Kasparov's questions made Kasparov suspicious and
from one thing came another.

This is *the* heart of the discussion.

Ed

• Re: A message from the ancient past Robert Hyatt 11:11:23 07/22/02
  • Re: A message from the ancient past Ed Schröder 06:41:10 07/23/02
    • Re: A message from the ancient past (some analysis here) Robert Hyatt 10:41:36 07/23/02
    • Re: A message from the ancient past Robert Hyatt 07:33:15 07/23/02
      • Re: A message from the ancient past Uri Blass 07:55:24 07/23/02
        • Re: A message from the ancient past Robert Hyatt 08:41:07 07/23/02
• Re: A message from the ancient past Rolf Tueschen 09:39:44 07/22/02

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