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Subject: Re: A Blast from the past - Feng Hsu Let's start with the Rules

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 01:29:52 04/24/05

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On April 23, 2005 at 23:52:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.

I said 'average'. You weren't playing the game, Kasparov was.
He thought it pondered too long, and rightfully needed an explanation.


you do
 They vary significantly
>because of pondering, failing low as happened in that game, etc.
>
>If you make poor assumptions, you reach poor conclusions...

You do that a lot.
>
>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.

Yes.. way after the fact you looked at the Logs; why were they not given to
Garry when he requested them?

You understand the 'panic' time, he didn't.

He was under a Hell of a lot of pressure, you were not.


>
>This is a red herring and crap.

No, you have to understand the time, place & circumstance; but your
overwhelming dislike and bias against Kasparov blinds you to the truth.



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