Author: Uri Blass
Date: 21:57:38 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." I do not see a proof that it was planned and designed. The problem was not 7...h6 but the rest of the game. I expect a player who designed that move to play better in the rest of the game. I do not trust a quote from an unknown international master in kasparov's camp. I am not sure if kasparov said that he regret the decision to play 7...h6 but even in that case it does not prove nothing. regreting the decision does not mean that he was prepared for Nxe6. I see other possible explanations: 1)Every choice of a human in a game can be described as a decision 2)Maybe kasparov thought that Deeper blue was out of book before Nxe6(maybe because deeper blue used time for the previous move) so he did not believe that deeper blue is going to play Nxe6. Kasparov could prepare h6 Nxe6 for the match but in that case I could expect him to be ready to play immediately every known position in human-human games. I remember that kasparov started to think when the position was still taken from human-human games and this is the reason that I do not think that he was prepared to play it. Uri
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