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Subject: Re: A New look at Kasparov -Deeper Blue Game1 :After 39...h4 its a Draw

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:38:36 06/26/03

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On June 26, 2003 at 18:36:35, Uri Blass wrote:

>On June 26, 2003 at 18:28:55, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>On June 26, 2003 at 17:54:35, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:
>>
>>>[D]3rr3/6k1/2p3P1/1p2nP1p/pP2p1P1/P1B1Nb1B/2P2K2/5R2 b
>>>In the above diagram Deeper Blue made a huge mistake by playing 39...Kh6 and
>>>lost.Commercial programs do not play this move but choose 39...h4 which draws.
>>>Amazingly no annotation to this game mentions this as the loosing mistake ;but
>>>they concentrate on moves like 34...Qxf1+ as mistakes.I Let Chessmaster 9000
>>>at 1.8 GHZ play both sides at 999 seconds per move for both sides after 39...h4
>>>and the result is a draw.Amazingly 39....h4! is played by the programs at very
>>>low depths also.Deeper Blue must be inferior to current Commercials for turning
>>>a Draw into a loss by playing 39....Kh6? 200 million positions per second and
>>>still it does not see 39...h4.I think Deeper Blue was at least 200 Elo points
>>>weaker than the current Commercials.HERE IS CHESSMASTER 9000 autoplay at 999sec
>>>per move at 1.8 GHZ after 39.....h4!
>>>CHESSMASTER 9000:39...h4 40.Ng2 Kf8 41.Nxh4 Bd1 42.f6 Bxc2 43.g7+ Kf7 44.Nf5
>>>Kxf6 45.g5+ Kxg5 46.Bxe5 Rxe5 47.Rg1+ Kf6 48.g8=Q Rxg8 49.Rxg8 Rxf5+ 50.Bxf5
>>>Kxf5 AND in this Drawn position the Computer(CM 9000) moves pieces back and
>>>forth for another 30 moves which I do not list without any advantage for any
>>>side.SO I THINK AFTER 39.....h4! IT IS A DRAW.
>>
>>Who says that this line played by Chessmaster is by any means the best one from
>>white's perspective?  You can't claim this is a drawing move based on one game
>>played by one engine against itself.  There's no real analysis to back this up.
>
>one game of engine against itself is better than no analysis.
>
>If you claim that it is not a draw then you need to show a way to beat
>chessmaster.
>
>Uri

I mean if you want to claim and convince other people.
I do not know the right result and if I see draw in comp-comp game then my guess
is that it is probably a draw.

Uri



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