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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