Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:35:40 11/20/02
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On November 20, 2002 at 07:22:11, Mike Byrne wrote: >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. Deeper blue also made it out of it's book. I do not think that deep blue was going to make it on his 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). I think that the reason that he expected it was simply because he had the illusion that deep blue is out of book. > >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. How do you know. There were a lot of chess programs at that time genius,wchess,Mchess,Hiarcs. Why Fritz? Genius was the best program at the time of the match. > >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! I agree about the first reason. I do not agree about the second. The fact that they make computers is not a reason for IBM not to cheat. Uri
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