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Subject: Re: Kasparov is afraid

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:39:43 01/11/00

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On January 11, 2000 at 18:14:46, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 11, 2000 at 16:11:54, Amir Ban wrote:
>[snip]
>>Don't be silly. That's the end position of DB-GK game 2. Deep Blue didn't see
>>the draw, and actually made the mistake of walking into this position. People
>>found the draw half an hour after the game and used micros to verify it.
>Not at all unlikely that I am wrong about all of them.
>
>At any rate, there was a thread titled "DB vs Kasparov Game 2 35. axb5" which
>had computers running for days on end.  I see that you were a contributor.  The
>other thread authors were:
>
>Blass Uri
>Bruce Moreland
>Dan Homan
>Dave Gomboc
>Ernst A. Heinz
>Ernst Walet
>Eugene Nalimov
>Graham Laight
>James Robertson
>Jeremiah Pennery
>Mark Young
>Michael Cummings
>Peter McKenzie
>Robert Hyatt
>Scott Shepherd
>Vincent Diepeveen
>Will Singleton
>
>I have put all relevant messages into a zip file on my ftp directory:
>ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/AXB5.ZIP
>
>for any who might be interested.  You seem to have had some special insight on
>this position, and even had access to the printouts.
>
>Is this position reproducable by PC's?


No.. and that was a key point.  Kasparov expected Qb6 which he thought won a
pawn.  DB failed low on that (apparently to near draw-score) and went for
something else.  When other programs couldn't produce this he was enraged.



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