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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