Author: Graham Laight
Date: 18:15:47 01/11/99
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On January 11, 1999 at 09:33:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>In the last game kasparov simply replaced the order of moves. >>He played a line that he recommended not to play in his book. >>This is not something that he does all the time. >> >>Uri > >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... I have seen a lot of great wisdom and straight talking common sense from Bob posting on the newsgroups over the years. Mostly, I agree with him - even when I'm on the other side of the discussion. But on this occasion - come on Bob, who are you trying to kid? At the risk of breaching copyright, I quote directly from the book "Kasparov V Deeper Blue" by Daniel King. *** Start Of Quoted Text *** Although this has been seen a few times at grandmaster level, it is known to be a mistake because of... 8 Nxe6 Garry shook his head in disbelief. He had made a finger-slip allowing a known sacrifice which, of course, was all in Deep Blue's database. *** End Of Quoted Text *** This was written not only by a chess GM, but also a man who was watching Garry on the video monitor. I think that most of us would conclude that Garry made a mistake. Daniel's description is incongruent with the concept of a man with a secret plan who is playing a computer that has no idea about the opponent's emotional reactions. Graham.
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