Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 20:51:12 01/28/03
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On January 28, 2003 at 19:04:38, Andrew Williams wrote:
>On January 28, 2003 at 19:01:34, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>On January 28, 2003 at 18:52:37, Andrew Williams wrote:
>>
>>>A very exciting game. Kasparov sacced the exchange, then after a
>>>mistake(25...Qa1), DJ sacced its Queen to force a draw!
>>>
>>>A game which should make computers and their advocates VERY worried, as every
>>>computer was saying that White was doing fine while John Fedorowicz was calmly
>>>informing us that Kasparov had it all under control. Fantastic fun!
>>>
>>>
>>>[Event "X3D Man-Machine match"]
>>>[Site "New York City"]
>>>[Date "2003.01.28"]
>>>[Round "2"]
>>>[White "Deep_Junior(C)"]
>>>[Black "Kasparov_1/2"]
>>>[Result "1/2-1/2"]
>>>[Opening "Sicilian: Kan, Polugaievsky variation"]
>>>[ECO "B42"]
>>>[NIC "SI.42"]
>>>[Time "14:47:06"]
>>>[TimeControl "7200+0"]
>>>
>>>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 Bc5 6. Nb3 Ba7 7. c4 Nc6 8.
>>>Nc3 d6 9. O-O Nge7 10. Re1 O-O 11. Be3 e5 12. Nd5 a5 13. Rc1 a4 14. Bxa7
>>>Rxa7 15. Nd2 Nd4 16. Qh5 Ne6 17. Rc3 Nc5 18. Bc2 Nxd5 19. exd5 g6 20. Qh6 f5
>>>21. Ra3 Qf6 22. b4 axb3 23. Rxa7 bxc2 24. Rc1 e4 25. Rxc2 Qa1+ 26. Nf1 f4
>>>27. Ra8 e3 28. fxe3 fxe3 29. Qxf8+ Kxf8 30. Rxc8+ Kf7 {Game drawn} 1/2-1/2
>>
>>The computers did not understand it as well as the humans, up to a point. Once
>>22. b4 was played, the computers understood very well. Computers saw that 25.
>>... f4 was better than 25. ... Qa1, and in fact they saw the game as drawn at or
>>near that point.
>>
>>bruce
>
>Yes, that's true. After 25...Qa1, the computers were way ahead of the human
>analysts.
>
>Andrew
But not Kasparov, he slipped and played the draw line...after the mistake he
whipped off the win in front of Shay and Amir....he was very upset with himself!
Terry
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