I'm watching it now.. Good stuff.
Is this talk of cheating legitimate?
Garry Kasparov vs IBM's Deep Blue
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This video is amazing! I just started following chess fairly recently, and I wasn't aware of the allegations made by Kasparov about this match. I'd say if Kasparov was openly saying IBM was cheating in the post-game press conferences, it is automatically legitimate. I'd say if anyone could tell if IBM was cheating, it would be the single person with the deepest knowledge of the game in the world.
Why didn't they show him the printouts!?!?!
Maybe if the stock of a major corporation wasn't on the line, IBM would have been more open about their tactics...
Aug 26, 2014
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Yes, coming back to the old thread. Do you think IBM team cheated then?
No, Kasparov was just butthurt.
When you say "butthurt" you are just make evident that you haven't followed the match.
Anyway, confronting moves and patterns between DB's games there are some clues, such as a growth of human like moves, that DB could have been helped by one or some GMs. Supporting this thesis there is the fact that IBM denied a rematch offer by Kasparov a year later.
I don't know if in the contract between Kasparov and IBM there was a point which stated that DB couldn't be helped by human, anyway I don't think DB was helped, but nobody can be sure
Except Superqueen, obviusly.
Aug 26, 2014
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When I watch the movie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDe-uHsEMn8) I automatically empathize with Garry and equally naturally don't like the IBM guys (it does not mean that they'd cheated, obviously).
Amazing documentary.
Garry Kasparov is arguably the greatest chess player who has ever lived. In 1997 he played a chess match against IBM's computer Deep Blue. Kasparov lost the match. This film shows the match and the events surrounding it from Kasparov's perspective. It delves into the psychological aspects of the game, paranoia surrounding it and suspicions that have arisen around IBM's true tactics. It consists of interviews with Kasparov, his manager, chess experts, and members of the IBM Deep Blue team, as well as original footage of the match itself.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4895271762581045075