Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 02:01:38 01/12/00
This is a copy of a post I made in another thread. It's interesting enough that I thought it deserved a new life at the top of the list. :-) Quick summary: Amir Ban asked if someone could produce a move played by Deep Blue that micros are unable to reproduce even with one week of search time. Bob Hyatt mentioned a position from game 1 of the first Kasparov-Deep Blue match. I'm pretty certain he was referring to this: [D]6rk/1N3p1p/5q2/3Q4/3p4/PP1n1pPP/5P2/2R3K1 w - - This is where Deep Blue played 32. Rc7. I think the micros all preferred 32. Rc6. Of course, that was 4 years ago, and now we all have faster machines. Might be fun to give this position a serious test again. I wonder, has it actually been proven that Rc7 is superior to Rc6? I suspect so, though I can't recall any specific analysis. Here's the complete game score: [Event "ACM Chess Challenge"] [Site "Philadelphia Convention Center"] [Date "96.02.10"] [Round "1"] [White "Deep Blue"] [Black "Kasparov, Garry"] [Opening "Alapin Sicilian"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. Be2 e6 7. h3 Bh5 8. O-O Nc6 9. Be3 cxd4 10. cxd4 Bb4 11. a3 Ba5 12. Nc3 Qd6 13. Nb5 Qe7 14. Ne5 Bxe2 15. Qxe2 O-O 16. Rac1 Rac8 17. Bg5 Bb6 18. Bxf6 gxf6 19. Nc4 Rfd8 20. Nxb6 axb6 21. Rfd1 f5 22. Qe3 Qf6 23. d5 Rxd5 24. Rxd5 exd5 25. b3 Kh8 26. Qxb6 Rg8 27. Qc5 d4 28. Nd6 f4 29. Nxb7 Ne5 30. Qd5 f3 31. g3 Nd3 32. Rc7 Re8 33. Nd6 Re1+ 34. Kh2 Nxf2 35. Nxf7+ Kg7 36. Ng5+ Kh6 37. Rxh7+ 1-0 --Peter
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