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Subject: Re: IBM hired the wrong people because it won?

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 11:16:13 01/11/99

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On January 11, 1999 at 13:31:01, blass uri wrote:

>>
>>Or, depending on who you believe, Kasparov tried that sequence of moves out
>>against Fritz over and over and won every game, even if fritz did sacrifice
>>the piece on e6.  To date no computer has been able to win the white side of
>>this game against a strong human (or computer) opponent.  So even this game
>>shows that DB is fearsome...
>
>The question is if the black side played the same as kasparov and the computers
>with white failed to win because they did not follow deep blue's good moves.
>
>I think that kasparov's move Qe7 was not the right move and he should play
>fxe6(this is not the only mistake of kasparov in the game) and this prove that
>he was not ready for this line.

Uri,

Please explain something here to me. I do not have the game you are referring to
in front of me, but I do not understand your point.

Every human player has a set of opening and variation information, be it to move
2 or to move 20 in a given variation. A player can understand the ideas of a
variation without necessarily knowing it cold (to 25 moves or some such). If a
given variation seems to be strong against computers (as per Robert's posting),
I can easily envision someone of Kasparov's talent playing the line, even if he
does not know it cold.

What does your claim of "this proves that he was not ready for this line" mean?
Does it mean that he only knew it to move 12? or move 14? or move 18? Just
because Kasparov made mistakes does not mean that he is not familiar with a
given line. Maybe he saw something that you do not and he was incorrect in his
evaluation. Or maybe he prepared a line and missed a continuation. Nobody can
really tell. The most your example seems to "prove" is that Kasparov made a
mistake.

Do you understand why your statement confuses me?

KarinsDad
>
>Uri



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