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Subject: Re: If deepblue were to start playing Real Chess" (Garry Kasparov)

Author: blass uri

Date: 01:05:17 11/13/98

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On November 11, 1998 at 19:52:26, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 11, 1998 at 04:25:06, Reynolds Takata wrote:
>
>>On November 10, 1998 at 17:19:21, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On November 10, 1998 at 10:29:12, Reynolds Takata wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 10, 1998 at 03:47:08, odell hall wrote:
>>>>  No offense but i'm seriously doubting that those words have echoed in your
>>>>ears, because Kasparov to my recollection said "if deepblue were to start
>>>>playing TOURNAMENT chess, I personaly guarantee I will tear it to shreds".
>>>>Would Kasparov tear it to shreds?  Well who knows that's only conjecture.
>>>>However, just as Kasparov may be drawing too big of conclusions from the
>>>>match,you are as well.  Especially considering the short nature of the match.
>>>>Heck if Jan Timman had beaten Kasparov ina match or even Judit Polgar had beaten
>>>>Polgar in a match, nobody and i mean nobody, would be claiming that either of
>>>>those players were better than Kasparov.  Another thing is that you are
>>>>overlooking the POSSIBILITY of LUCK.  I say this, because as a master i know
>>>>that there is luck.  An example, though i am only an average master, in the game
>>>>that Kasparov resigned that was a draw.   I saw the draw almost instantaneously,
>>>>maybe a minute to check to make sure of it is all.  As for everyone not seeing
>>>>the move that's not true.
>>>
>>>I'll bet you didn't see the real draw...
>>
>>Well Bob you can bet all you want have a coke and a smile.
>>
>>because it is 30 moves deep.  And it
>>>took a bunch of people all night with computers and brains in gear to find this
>>>.  You might have "thought" it was a draw...  But that's a long way from
>>>"knowing" it is a draw.  And I'm not trying to be insulting... but a bunch of
>>>GM players didn't see it either...  It's non-trivial...
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>  In fact many players believed there was something.  I
>>>>wont forget I.M. Ashleys shock when it happened he says at the moment something
>>>>to the effect "What? Kasparov is resigning?"  In a very shocked voice.  At that
>>>>point many people just stopped examining the position.  Further, 2 more of the
>>>>games Kasparov was had winning positions(and blew) that most average GM's would
>>>>have won,
>>>
>>>This is not a convincing argument.
>>
>>The above statement isn't an arguement.  As for them being Winning positions you
>>need to try to understand what is generally meant when players and Chess
>>periodicals say winning.  You can have mate in two and not win.  The above is
>>not only my analysis but MANY Grandmasters as well, you only have to look around
>>for the confirmation of this, which include statements by Anand and Orlov.
>>
>
>My point is that two things are happening here...  1.  some GM players have a
>lot of disdain for computers, having been exposed to micros and finding them
>relatively unintelligent, excepting for fast time controls.  And they assume
>that *they* can analyze more deeply and more accurately.  (more on this in a
>minute).  2.  these same players look at some positions and say "white is
>winning..." and that's that.  Care to look thru a good opening book and let's
>do the following:  I can pick *any* opening where the analysis is +- and you
>have to play the white side of it, with a wager of $10,000 on the outcome.
>You know what would happen there, correct?  Because there are lots of such
>annotated games where something *serious* was overlooked, and instead of being
>+- it should be -+.
>
>The thing that most bothers me about the comments about game two of the DB
>match is that *everyone* agreed that the computer should have played Qb6 and
>won a pawn, with a probable win as the result.  And they all agreed that a
>very strong human might have tried Be4 instead.  And *all* overlooked that
>Qb6 leads to a draw.
>
>So what is convincing when they say that in game X, DB was lost, but it managed
>to swindle a draw because Kasparov made a mistake.

about what game are you talking?

I remember that I read only about one game(game 4) that kasparov missed a win in
the site of danny mozes.

I think also that deep blue was lost also in game 6 after Nxe6 but I am not sure
of it.

Uri



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