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

Author: Michel Langeveld

Date: 22:06:39 01/10/00

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On January 10, 2000 at 16:17:22, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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!.

Yes, I see... different game, different problem. Kasparov was angree over both
h5 and Nxe6.... Sorry for the wrong facts.

Note: The sentence about Junior belongs to h5.

Michel Langeveld



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