Author: Michael Ginat
Date: 09:22:42 03/03/99
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On March 03, 1999 at 09:59:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On March 03, 1999 at 04:36:43, Lin Harper wrote: > >>Kaspy should never have agreed to such a short match. He would surely have >>caught up and passed the computer if he had time. > >I think Kasparov might be one of the best two or three players of all time. >But in _that_ match with deep blue, I personally believe that if the match >had gone two more games, it would have been two more won games for DB. Kasparov >"lost it" somewhere in the first 3-4 games and never recovered. And I don't >believe he would have recovered unless there had been a month break in the >match which would not have happened. > >The last two games of the match had him looking 'beaten' before he ever made >the first move. I think it would be very difficult for him to 'come back' >with additional games, given the way he appeared to feel... > > I think that most of you are missing a key point in this discussion. Kasparov was psyched out because he was scared that he did not have an edge in the openings. I haven't looked at his games in Linares yet, but apparently he is blowing his oponents away by getting a big advantage in the openings. It's a pity someone like Karpov didn't get a chance to play Deeper Blue - I can't imagine him resigning a drawn position, and he would be able to steer the games along positional paths without playing nonsense openings.
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