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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