Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:03:03 10/23/02
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On October 23, 2002 at 17:52:06, Walter Faxon wrote: >On October 23, 2002 at 15:19:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 23, 2002 at 15:16:39, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>A couple of classics come to mind that are easy to find. >> >>1. Kasparov blundered in game 2 of the DB match in 1997. He resigned a drawn >>position. >> >>2. Kasparov blundered in game 6 and blew an opening sequence of moves and lost. >> >>It is interesting that we see _more_ mistakes against computers. >> >>My theory is that the computers simply notice the mistakes that humans might >>well overlook... > >-------------------- > >The game 6 "blunder" is dealt with in Hsu's book, pp. 254-256: > >"So what did happen? An International Master in Kasparov's camp was quoted the >next day in the newspaper that the 7. ... h6 move was one agreed upon earlier. >Garry himself stated months later in an interview that he regretted the decision >to play 7. ... h6. So the move was never a slip of the finger as it was >characterized in news articles immediately following the match. It was played >by design." > >Buy Hsu's book to read more. I don't remember that being in there. But I certainly hypothesized at the time that it was _very_ likely that he had played this move because when he tried it against Fritz, he won easily being a piece up. It is interesting that they finally _admitted_ that it was not an accidental move as originally claimed by everyone in the group, but a planned thing that failed, because Kasparov was told "Fritz is about as strong as deep blue, and if you give it more time, it will be equal." That was a bit of an overstatement, as history has shown. :)
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