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Subject: Re: Two of the Deep Blue moves protested by GM Kasparov

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 09:13:11 07/24/02

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On July 24, 2002 at 02:35:40, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>On July 17, 2002 at 00:03:24, K. Burcham wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>In game 2,  Kasparov thought that there was human interference with this line.
>>He requested the logs to see for himself that these two moves were actually in
>>the Deep Blue eval.
>>Kasparov did not think any program would play 36.axb5 avoiding 36.Qb6 or the
>>move 37.Be4.
>>
>>But it seems that todays programs will accomplish what Deep Blue was trying to
>>do in the game.
>>Deep Blue opened up the a file and blocked Kasparov's play with 37.Be4, limiting
>>blacks mobility.
>>
>>Below in the examples you will see that two of todays strongest programs will
>>also accomplish this same objective. Both Fritz7 and Chess Tiger 14.0 will open
>>the a file and control the a file. also both Fritz7 and Chess Tiger 14.0 will
>>play Be4 limiting Kasparov's mobility with black.
>>
>>All three programs, Deep Blue, Chess Tiger 14.0 and Fritz7 put the
>>squeeze on black, blocked with the Be4 move, opened the a file, threatened to
>>capture blacks bishop, forced black to protect the loss of pawns, etc.
>>
>>I started each program after Kasparov's move 35...Bxd6.
>>after  each program analyzed for several hours, I took the line from each
>>program and played it through to the position after blacks move 40.
>>This way we can cover both controversial moves.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Deep Blue vs Kasparov game 2
>>
>>Deep Blue position after Kasparov 35...Bxd6
>> [D] r1r1q1k1/6p1/p2b1p1p/1p1PpP2/PPp5/2P4P/R1B2QP1/R5K1 w - - 0 1
>>
>>
>>Deep Blue vs Kasparov        line from game 2 starting with move 36.
>>36.axb5 axb5     37.Be4 Rxa2   38.Qxa2 Qd7       39.Qa7 Rc7           40.Qb6 Rb7
>>41.Ra8+ Kf7        42.Qa6 Qc7      43.Qc6 Qb6+     44.Kf1 Rb8           45.Ra6
>>     1-0
>
>Hiarcs 8, after 5h of thinking on a celeron@875 Mhz :
>
>Analysis by Hiarcs 8:
>
>1. +- (1.85): 1.Db6 Fc7 2.De6+ Dxe6 3.fxe6 Tab8 4.axb5 axb5 5.Ta6 Tb6 6.Ff5 Tcb8
>7.Fg6 Txa6 8.Txa6 Fd8 9.d6 Rh8 10.e7 Fb6+ 11.Rh1
>2. ± (0.96): 1.axb5 axb5 2.Db6 Txa2 3.Txa2 Fc7 4.De6+ Rf8 5.Rf1 e4 6.Fxe4 Fe5
>7.Ta3 Ta8 8.Dxe8+ Txe8 9.Ff3 Fg3 10.Ta1

After 14h40, not many changes :
Nouvelle partie
r1r1q1k1/6p1/p2b1p1p/1p1PpP2/PPp5/2P4P/R1B2QP1/R5K1 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Hiarcs 8:

1. +- (1.65): 1.Db6 De7 2.axb5 Tab8 3.Dxa6 e4 4.Fxe4 De5 5.Ff3 De3+ 6.Rf1 Dd3+
7.Rf2 Fe5 8.De6+ Rh7 9.Df7 Dxf5 10.g4 Dg5 11.Fe4+ Rh8
2. ± (0.96): 1.axb5 axb5 2.Db6 Txa2 3.Txa2 Fc7 4.De6+ Rf8 5.Rf1 e4 6.Fxe4 Fe5
7.Ta3 Ta8 8.Dxe8+ Txe8 9.Ff3 Fg3 10.Ta1 Te3



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