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Subject: Re: A Blast from the present.

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 16:52:16 04/24/05

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On April 24, 2005 at 19:43:45, Matthew Hull wrote:

>On April 24, 2005 at 11:42:17, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
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>>On April 24, 2005 at 11:26:32, chandler yergin wrote:
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>>>On April 24, 2005 at 10:13:18, Robert Hyatt wrote:
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>>>>On April 24, 2005 at 05:14:48, Peter Berger wrote:
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>>>>>On April 23, 2005 at 23:52:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>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.
>>>>>
>>>>>When was the first time someone independent had a look at these logfiles? Have
>>>>>you and the several others had a chance to look at the logfiles right after the
>>>>>games took place, say May 1997?
>>>>>
>>>>>The logfiles IBM published eventually mean nothing at all. This was more than a
>>>>>year after the games, wasn't it? Even I could produce most impressive logfiles
>>>>>given that much time ..
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>>>>Yes.  Several looked at the log right after the event.  I believe that Ken sent
>>>>me the section from the game although I don't remember whether it was the Qxb6
>>>>(not played) or the Be4 position.  I believe that Amir posted something about
>>>>the position early, but his comments were based on either not understanding what
>>>>DB's log output meant, or something else.
>>>>
>>>>This was about the "fail low (panic time)" that caused DB to search much longer
>>>>than normal and may have been on the Be4 move although I simply don't remember
>>>>much about it since it was not a particularly significant event in my mind
>>>>because at the time I posted an excerpt from a Crafty log that looked
>>>>_identical_ in concept.
>>>>
>>>>Nothing ever looked strange about the log stuff to me...
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>>>Kasparov never saw them did he?
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>>> He was the one that requested them.
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>>>He was the one under pressure.
>>>
>>>Review by third parties 'after the fact',
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>>>way after the fact, do not excuse what happened.
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>>>I doubt if any Grandmaster, then or now, would go into a Match
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>>>against 'any' Opponent blind, or accept the Match conditions Kasparov did.
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>>Kasparov was seriously believing that this was a science clarification but when
>>the scientists behaved like known crooks in sports he was completely losing his
>>motivation to play decent chess. That is the crucial point. The position of Bob
>>Hyatt is absolutely ok if you forget about the usually good relationship the
>>team around Hsu had towards Kasparov. But if you dont forget that then you begin
>>to realise what a fishy job they had played vs Kasparov who formerly was their
>>buddy. Psychologically that is trivial. At first you woo somebody and when you
>>won him, then you can play dirty and the guy is completely lost, most of all
>>because of his perception that he could be so blind and to be so naive.
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>GK was beaten in a match by DeepBlue II.  It was a portent.  Now, on ICC, you
>can watch GMs getting smashed, thrashed, pumelled, flogged and slaughtered, all
>day and night long.  They win a few games here and there and get evicerated the
>rest of the time.
>
>All whining defenders of human chess superiority need to grow up.  Humans aren't
>as consistently good as computers anymore.  Humans are toast in chess, now.


In Blitz and Rapid, yes.


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>>>Grandmasters prepare a dossier against their opponents and study them for
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>>>months before a match. The Deep Blue team would not let Garry have access to
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>>>even a glimpse of the Prematch training games of Deep Blue.
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>>>With good reason of course; they knew that the Computer could not beat him fair
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>>> and square.



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