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Subject: Re: A Blast from the past - DBII didn't win a single game!!

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 17:17:59 04/29/05

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On April 29, 2005 at 16:13:28, Dan Honeycutt wrote:

>On April 29, 2005 at 05:23:51, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>
>>The impression of the chess players after the match was that DBII was not better
>>than Kasparov at 1997 inspite of the results.
>>
>
>You are right Uri, but I've never seen the other side (Bob) say that DB was
>better than Kasparov.  Apparently some must feel that a 6 game match somehow
>"proves" who is better and they feel a need to vindicate Kasparov.  As Bob has
>said, all it proves is who was better for those 6 games.
>
>Dan H.

But even with that consideration the statement remains false. And that is
exactly because of what Uri explained. If you give up because you have false
assumption about the machine then this has nothing to do with chess as such.
Kasparov WAS capable of counting down to the necessary depth where he could have
seen the draw. But Kasparov was misleaden in thinking that DBII wouldn't have
played the line IF there had been a draw. That is the point. So, it boils down
to such a nonsense and has NOTHING to do with a better chess by DBII. That's the
point.

So, Bob is completely wrong with his conclusion that DBII had been "better" for
these six games. All that is all logic. Only Hsu set logic out of the event. But
here we re-enter the known debate of cheating science, the spectators worldwide
and Kasparov.



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