Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:52:36 04/23/05
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On April 23, 2005 at 20:41:53, chandler yergin wrote: >On April 23, 2005 at 12:07:19, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >>On April 22, 2005 at 19:18:55, chandler yergin wrote: >> >>> Rule Number 13 is quite revealing.. >> >> >>I never heard about the rule 13 - indeed it's an incredible thing to digest. The >>team of IBM could interfere, when it was their move, to the hardware, i.e. the >>hash-relevant parts of the machine IF they saw - with the help of friendly GM >>contact, that DBII was trying to play a nonsense move where Kasparov could have >>had certain advantages! My interpretation of that rule is that IBM was allowed >>to break DBII's thoughtprocess and then continue with a fresh attempt and >>because of time management reasons they could have forced the machine to play >>something, the machine normally would never have played. To me now the positions >>Kasparov had in mind are completely explanable. If there was a human influence >>on the machine, it was even allowed by the rules, here rule 13! Unbelievable. >>Now I don't understand why Kasparov complained at all! Because what he suspected >>was absolutely within the rules. > >Yes.. the 'time management' software divides up the thinking time for the >Computer. If the Time control is 40 moves in 2 hours 120 minutes divided >by 40 averages 3 minutes a move. > >In Game 2 Deep Blue used 6.5 minutes for it's critical move; which is why >Kasparov suspected possible human intervention, and wanted a copy of the >Log. Logical and justifiable in my opinion. > >Would you agree? No, because no computer uses 3 minutes per move. They vary significantly because of pondering, failing low as happened in that game, etc. If you make poor assumptions, you reach poor conclusions... Several of us have looked at the logs for the games, and game 2 looked perfectly normal and the program even reported a fail low and "panic time" where it searched longer than normal because of the fail low. This is a red herring and crap.
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