Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 20:24:09 06/10/03
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On June 10, 2003 at 23:20:53, Mike Byrne wrote: >On June 10, 2003 at 22:38:44, emerson tan wrote: > >>What's the best game played by a computer vs computer? computer vs humans? >> >>I know that beauty is subjective, but we all agree that being sound, accurate, >>economical, difficult, deep in tactics and strategy, unexpected combinations, >>long term sacrice, positional sacrifice, successful speculative sacrifice and >>level of opposition constitute beauty in a game of chess. >> >>Do you have some list of the the top 10 beautiful games played by computers? > > >This my favorite and it is proably the best known and most written about >computer vs human game ever. I still have an original whole page article that >written by the NY Times Bruce Weber (May 13th, 1997 pg 22) on this game which >included 9 position diagrams. When was the last time the NY Times published a >chess game with 9 position diagrams. > >Immediately after the match, both Anatoly Karpov (then ICF World Champion)and >Susan Polgar (Woman's World Champion) both offered to play DB in a match. >Karpov said his positonal style of play would be more highly suited against DB ( >I agree with him on this point.) Karpov also stated that 34...f6 was a terrible >move and after 34. ..f6 Black was dead. > > > >Deep Blue - Kasparov,G (2795) [C93] >New York (m/2) 69/337, 1997 > > >1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3 >h6 10.d4 Re8 11.Nbd2 Bf8 12.Nf1 Bd7 13.Ng3 Na5 14.Bc2 c5 15.b3 Nc6 16.d5 Ne7 >17.Be3 Ng6 18.Qd2 Nh7 19.a4 Nh4 20.Nxh4 Qxh4 21.Qe2 Qd8 22.b4 Qc7 23.Rec1 c4 >24.Ra3 Rec8 25.Rca1 Qd8 26.f4 Nf6 27.fxe5 dxe5 28.Qf1 Ne8 29.Qf2 Nd6 30.Bb6 Qe8 >31.R3a2 Be7 32.Bc5 Bf8 33.Nf5 Bxf5 34.exf5 f6 35.Bxd6 Bxd6 > >[d]r1r1q1k1/6p1/p2b1p1p/1p1PpP2/PPp5/2P4P/R1B2QP1/R5K1 w - - 0 36 >No PC program today finds axb5. The obvious Qb6 allows black counterplay. In >hindsight, Karparov was "thinking" Deep Blue would play Qb6 and he would have >had counterplay. Deep Blue failed low with Qb6 went into "panic mode" and ended >up playing 36.axb5. A much better move than Qb6 in many GM's eyes. > >36.axb5 axb5 37.Be4 Rxa2 38.Qxa2 Qd7 39.Qa7 Rc7 40.Qb6 Rb7 41.Ra8+ Kf7 42.Qa6 >Qc7 43.Qc6 Qb6+ 44.Kf1 Rb8 45.Ra6 0-1 >[d]1r6/5kp1/RqQb1p1p/1p1PpP2/1Pp1B3/2P4P/6P1/5K2 b - - 0 45 >45. ..Qe3 draws is the GM opinion > >To add salt to the wound, it turned out that Kasparov resigned a drawn game >(according to the experts -- not me). A pivotal game, that impacted the history >of Computer Chess and the first "full" game ever published by Chess Informant >that was won by a computer (along with Game 6 - which was just an awful game by >Kasparov with a blunder on the 7th move - 7...h6.) also note the incorrect game score -- in the CI EE edition, they have this game wrong -- it's obviously 1-0 and not 0-1.
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