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Author: Mark Young

Date: 01:11:59 11/10/98

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On November 10, 1998 at 03:47:08, odell hall wrote:

>
> 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!

This is a guess, but I think he means that Deep Blue cheated, by having GM Joel
Benjamin help Deep Blue when it was needed in the games. So if Deep Blue played
100% on it own, in his mind he would kill it.



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