Author: odell hall
Date: 00:47:08 11/10/98
After The Last Game of the Match Between World Champion Garry Kasparov and Deeperblue, At the Press Conference Garry Announced "I want to assure everyone here that if deepblue were to start playing real chess, I personaly guarantee I would have torn it to shreds with no question". These words have echoed in my mind every since the match ended, I had no understanding of them then and I do not understand them now. What does garry mean by "real chess"?? I thought that's what was being played in the first place. I wonder if this was just the angry reaction of a man who has never expierenced defeat in match play, or if the statement has any truth. I am assuming that garry means that if deepblue were to play published games then other grandmasters could study the games and find weakness. However My understanding is that what makes deeper special and radically more sophisicated then it's predessor is it's ability to change it's style of play in mid stream, a credit to the Brillance of the deepblue team. My impression is that it was extremely presumptous of garry to say he would tear it to pieces! What is this evaluation based on? Is he making the statement based on his past expierences with strong computer programs, in which after several games he was able to find weakness and exploit them? The fact is that he was unable to repeat this strategy against deeperblue during the second match, so what makes him think he could do it at a future time? Personally I don't think Garry would have a chance against deeperblue in a future match, The Machine has already demonstrated an unbeatable endgame and ofcourse garry's flair for tactics is useless against a machine that calculates 1 billion nodes per second!
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