Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 10:20:07 11/20/02
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On November 20, 2002 at 07:35:40, Uri Blass wrote: >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. A known fact. At the time and maybe still does - he had a very close relationship with the Chessbase owners - this is common knowledge. >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. IBM had no material financial incentive to cheat. They were sponsoring the match, they were paying for the expenses. etc. In fact ,one could argue that they would have like to continue the series. Kasparov killed any chance of any rematch himslf by his outrageous comments. IBM was doing this for PR - Kasparov was bringing bad PR at the end. If you would think any of the people that were close to the Deep Blue project would cheat - you have no clue about these people. Now if you said FIDE or USCF - you would have a point. A very good point. The shenangians that both of these organizations have pulled over the years is well documented. Naturally , Kasparov has been exposed to the FIDE for a number of years - so for him to be distrustful of organizations makes all the sense in the world to me. > >The fact that they make computers is not a reason for IBM not to cheat. > >Uri
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