Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:12:28 01/11/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 12:59:33, Graham Laight wrote: >On January 10, 2000 at 21:34:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>>I see what you are saying... >>>> >>>I did find this on the rebel site though... >>> >>>"Deep Blue - Kasparov the re-match of 1997 won by Deep Blue. >>> >>>In this famous position Gary Kasparov resigned while he could have a draw with >>>Qe3! Like Gary for most computers this move is also very hard to find. >>>Rebel 10.0 (normal) Qe3! not found after 13 plies and 30 minutes. >>>Rebel 10.0 (anti-GM) Qe3 found at ply 12 at 7:22" >>> >>>looks like the anti-GM feature did find the move if I'm reading this right... >>>> >> >>Aha.. now I understand. Crafty (at the time) found Qe3 easily. But it thought >>it was losing. It never understood that the score was anywhere near 0.00. That >>was the issue I was addressing. It is one thing to find the right move, another >>to find the right move for the right reason. Kasparov said that the draw was >>obvious after he looked at it and couldn't believe the computer had overlooked >>it. He was wrong. The draw is over 60 plies into the future, not "a few". > >So how is it possible that within hours of the game, people from all over the >world had found the draw with their PC based chess programs? > >-g Simple. They didn't. What happened was that several people started using PCs to follow what everyone considered the critical PV to a point where things seemed unclear, and then let the PeeCees burn a while to see if they could see a draw. I did this on chess.net most of the night. Bruce and some others did it on ICC. I joined in over there later. But the more we all looked, the more we all became convinced. But _no_ program found the draw with Qe3. Not a one.
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