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Subject: Re: Deep Blue's 8.Nxe6 in Game 6 a forced win?

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 10:47:29 09/22/03

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On September 22, 2003 at 08:46:18, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On September 21, 2003 at 22:10:52, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>On September 21, 2003 at 20:04:21, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On September 20, 2003 at 16:12:18, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>>>
>>>no way they could predict he would go caro-kann, so the statistical chance in a
>>>4000 move book this line was there till nxe6 is like zero.
>>
>>The GMs doing DB's opening tuning had that position up and running on DB --
>>briefly -- as they were booking it up.  It could be that they saw it would play
>>Nxe6 out of the extended book, saw that it liked its position as White there,
>>and left it alone.  Whether it was in the small book or the extended book, the
>>important thing is that DB was comfortable playing Nxe6 on its own, and they let
>>it do so.
>>
>>Dave
>
>That's just another BS marketing story which is not true.

That is not a marketing story.  That is a personal anecdote from one of the
developers.  Buzz off.

Dave



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