Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 04:22:11 11/20/02
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On November 20, 2002 at 03:29:50, Pavel Blokhine wrote: >What oepnings book Deep Blue used against Gary Kasparov and how many games it >had? Does anybody knows? In the sixth and last game, Deep Blue used a knight >sacrifice that few programs will have considered or made. And it made some very >human like moves all troughout the 6 matchs so may be Gary Kasparov was right on >his hints that there may have been some cheating from the IBM team. The knight sacrifice seemed to catch Kasparov off guard. You are right most proframs are either told to back up the knight or would not make it on their own. After the game, almost everyone said that the h6 by Kasparov was a mistake. Obviously he played it in anticipation that DB would back up the knight (because Fritz always backed up the knight). Some point to this game as to how faulty Kasparov's preparation was for the match. The mistakes: 1. He played many games against Fritz. Fritz is no Deep Blue. He though Deep Blue would make moves like Fritz. 2, He tried to employed an anti-computer strategy. He might have been better off just pretending he was playing a top GM and make the moves he would normally play. The concept that DB and their team cheated is ludicrous. One it would involve many people - people that have gone their separate ways since the match. Somebody would talk about it. Two, that would not be in IBM's best interest - after all they make computers! When Kasparov went on his unprofessional tirade after and since the match - he effectively nixed any GM ever playing Deep Blue again. That negative publicity was not the kind of publicity that IBM wants, but perhaps that was Kasparov's intent?
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