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Subject: Re: I still find it interesting today.

Author: Terry Giles

Date: 15:56:03 06/06/05

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On June 06, 2005 at 18:50:00, John Dawlish wrote:

>On June 06, 2005 at 18:27:24, K. Burcham wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>Kasparov didnt think any program could see this line, blocking the advancing
>>pawn. Kasparov thought all programs would play 36.Qb6 and try to capture one or
>>two pawns with the white Queen. Kasparov thought the humans actually made this
>>move to block the black pawn.
>>
>>36.axb5 axb5 37.Be4
>> [D] r1r1q1k1/6p1/p2b1p1p/1p1PpP2/PPp5/2P4P/R1B2QP1/R5K1 w - - 0 36
>
>
>Only about a week ago there was a BBC2 TV programme about the match. Kasparav
>suggested that IBM may have had a button they could press that would force the
>computer to discard its best line in favour of 37.Be4. He asked the IBM team if
>he could see the computer logs which at the time they declined to do. I wonder
>if these logs were ever published at a later date.
>
>JD


Hi John,

The logs of IBM's Deep Blue for all six games have been available for many years
on their website...

http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/

Apparently Kasparov wasn't even aware of this until very recently!

Terry





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