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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 17:54:41 06/26/03

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On June 26, 2003 at 19:33:31, Albert Silver wrote:

>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.
>
>I don't think that would be so hard since I think the way CM handled white's
>position was crap (no offense, Johann). It gives up *all* white's kingside pawns
>to end up in a dead drawn position. The whole line, which could be the effect of
>some kind of horizon effect, looked very stupid with all due respect.
>
>                                        Albert

I did not analyze the position but I believe that if the passed pawns can be
used then it is something that programs can usually see by a long search.

The question is if there was an alternative to make progress(unfortunately
I am too busy in other things to analyze the game).

Uri



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