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Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:16:23 11/10/98

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On November 10, 1998 at 04:30:44, blass uri wrote:

>
>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
>
>1)He did not play the same program in the second match
>
>2)I looked at the games and the wins of deeper blue were not convincing
>
>In the second game of the match deeper blue won only because of a stupid mistake
>of kasparov(kasparov resigned in a draw position because he believed the machine
>can see everything in tactics
>
>In the last game kasparov did another stupid mistake when he played an opening
>he was not prepared to play.
>
>I expected deeper blue to win before the match but I was dissapointed from
>deeper blue and I expect gary kasparov to win  the same deeper blue 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!
>
>I do not agree because the machine proved it can miss tactical long lines(it did
>not see the draw in the second game)
>
>Uri


this is dead wrong.  It overlooked a draw in game two that *kasparov* also
overlooked.  But when it played Be4 rather than Qb6, the move that Kasparov
insisted won a pawn, it turns out that DB had seen a *very* deep draw there,
one that Kasparov also overlooked.

So to pick on deep blue for overlooking one of two deep draws seems a tad
wrong when the current world champion overlooked *both* of them.  No one
says the machine has to play "perfect"...  only "better"...



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