Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 16:48:46 08/04/03
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On August 04, 2003 at 13:29:16, Erik Bergren wrote: >I was using Crafty to analyze the sixth game >of the match "Deep Blue vs. Kasparov". At >ply 15 the night sacrificing move that >forces the win (most agree)is made "Ng5*e6". >Crafty evaluates the resulting position as >about -1.3 (thus in favor of Black). >Like wise,Deep Blue's screen dump show's -1.6 (thus >in favor of Black), and stays in Black's favor till >after ply 21 "Bc1f4", six plies after the >sacrifice! >Like wise, the live commentators >said "Fritz 4" was scoring -.28 (thus in favor >of Black) at ply 25 "Pa2a4". > If all those computers rate the position >resulting from that winning sacrifice as >dropping in score for White, then that move >would have been far below the favorite >move from their move lists. Thus, they can >not make that move on their own. > Is that all correct? That specific move was in DB's book. Playing h6 was a gross error by Kasparov.
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