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Subject: Re: Robert Deep Blue question - Lost position anyways

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:53:15 01/13/03

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On January 13, 2003 at 14:33:57, Eduard Nemeth wrote:

>On January 13, 2003 at 11:02:14, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On January 13, 2003 at 10:51:00, K. Burcham wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Kasparov,G (2785) - Deep Blue (2885)
>>>Game 1
>>>03.05.1997
>>>
>>>
>>>Robert, I am not sure if you have stated your opinion on this move.
>>>Did you think this move was a bug in Deep Blue?
>>>
>>>Deep Blue here played    44...Rd1
>>>[D] 4r3/8/2p2PPk/1p1r4/pP2p1R1/P1B5/2P2K2/8 b - - 0 44
>>>
>>>kburcham
>>
>>
>>I am not sure, but I believe that it was caused by a bug.  Hsu said something
>>about it playing a "random move" if some particular set of circumstances
>>happened
>>which included a "fail low"...
>
>This position is lost!
>
>Lost after Rg8 , lost after Rf5...lost after another moves too.
>
>Eduard


I think Hsu mentioned this in his book.  They had failed low, and a bug caused
them
to play a purely random move, which fortunately did not cost them anything.  And
based on Kasparov's comments, it could have helped since he might have thought
"something is fishy I had better be careful."

:)



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