Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 03:50:46 04/29/05
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On April 29, 2005 at 05:23:51, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 28, 2005 at 23:17:46, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On April 28, 2005 at 22:01:24, chandler yergin wrote: >> >>>On April 28, 2005 at 20:30:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On April 28, 2005 at 15:17:13, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >>>> >>>>>On April 28, 2005 at 14:12:33, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Hsu didn't win. Deep Blue "won". >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>No. >>>>> >>>>>1. DBII lost in game one. Very badly. Kasparov's superior chess! >>>>> >>>>>2. Then Kasparov gave up a drawn game. He was very confused. >>>>> >>>>>3. Then three draws. >>>>> >>>>>4. Then Kasparov threw another game. He was no longer in the match since the >>>>>second game... >>>>> >>>>>So, where DBII WON a single game? >>>> >>>>The _official_ history of the match has DB winning rounds 2 and 6, losing round >>>>1, and drawing the rest. What part of that is confusing? If you want to play >>>>word games and say that the 1-0 result in round two means black lost rather than >>>>that white won, fine. In round 1 DB lost, Kasparov didn't win. >>> >>>Could not the same thing be said about Game 6? >> >> >>That was my point. That was Rolf's claim in fact. It works both ways. But >>whether DB won a game, or Kasparov lost the game, the final result is _exactly_ >>the same... > >The final result is not exactly the same in the meaning that if DB won games not >thanks to stupid errors of kasparov then the impression of the chess players >could be that DB is better than Kasparov and after the match the impression of >the chess players was not that DB is better than Kasparov. > >Both mistakes of kasparov in the games that he lost are mistakes that kasparov >does not do against humans and both were result of not understanding the >machine. > >In game 2 Kasparov believed that he has no chance for a perpetual check because >he believed that DB could see it after getting the impression that DB saw >another perpetual earlier in the game because it was the only way that kasparov >could explain DB's move to himself. >The result was that he even did not analyze this possibility. > >In game 6 Kasparov played for a line that he was not ready to play. > >DB did not get a losing position in game 1 because of a stupid error so the >story of game 1 is different. > >The impression of the chess players after the match was that DBII was not better >than Kasparov at 1997 inspite of the results. > >Uri If you want to say that DBII played just 6 games and therefore nothing was proved - that's fine. That was indeed a horrible waste of resources. But this crap about game 1 being a "quality win" while games 2 and 6 were junk - come on. The "cleanest" game was game 2. Yes, there was an extremely difficult perpetual at the end that was missed by both sides, but aside from that it was a nice "positional" game. You can just pretend that Kasparov resigned two or three moves earlier. Games 1 and 6 were complex battles in which both sides took huge risks. There is this huge fallacy that both games were decided in the opening. Well, maybe for God they were, but not for anybody else. Vas
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