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Subject: Re: Open Letter by Hsu: Kasparov does not want a rematch

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:17:22 01/10/00

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On January 10, 2000 at 14:27:18, Michel Langeveld wrote:

>[snip]
>>Before more qualified people take over:
>>Kasparov probably knows less about computer chess than 90 % of the people here.
>>(Yes, I am firmly in the 10 %).  That is what is being discussed.
>>Deep Blue a fake?  Like the Turk?
>>The last two sentences are strange: Kasparov played (if I may translate "want"
>>this way) h6 because Deep Blue did not have it in its book?  It did, of course,
>>but it would not have been necessary.  If I play h6 at my club in that position,
>
>Deep blue played h6 not kasparov. It as in a positions where this move was
>strange and no program before the match Deep Blue - Kasparov can reproduce this
>move. I heard Junior could reproduce it but this program is possibly tuned to
>find this positions.
>
>[snip]


Wrong game.  You are thinking of the h5 move by DB.  In round 6, Kasparov played
h6 and DB stunned him with Nxe6!.



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