Marc MP wrote:JensBNielsen wrote:Thanks for your replies.
I assume that noone so far has made a program that replies instantly.
When I wrote the preparation material (80 pages) for GM Bent Larsen and other danish players before their meeting with Baby Deep Blue in Copenhagen 1993, I really feared the machine had such a feature that might totally confuse and stress the players.
Jens
Hi Jens,
What was the result of the match? Are the games still available somewhere? I vaguely remember reading something about it in the now long defunc Inside Chess. They were rapid games weren't they?
If I remember correctly Larsen played a four knigth games with white, right? (and an English against Deep Thought couple of years before?).
Perhaps I should upload the article from the danish chessmagazine Skakbladet...
I just found this link, where you can see the results:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=29912
(You must be a member to download the games)
You are right; Larsens first game was a four knigt opening which he won.
After that he drew 3 games (there must be an error in the list. Larsen also drew with the scandinavian opening).
All Larsens games were at 40/2.
Also most games against the other danish top players were at 40/2.
But there were also some rapid games, and they were very interesting.
Deep Blue did very poor in these games although they were faster.
In Deep Blue - Bjarke Kristensen the computer made a big error in the first move after the opening book and lost in 24 moves!
In Jens Kristiansen - Deep Blue the game was closed and the computer did a lot of silly moves without any plan and lost.
The game Deep Blue - Svend Hamann can be seen here:
[url]http://www.chessgames.com/perl/che ... id=1472183[/url]
Because of the horizon effect (a lot of white checks) white allowed black a passed pawn on the a-file and lost. The Deep Blue team (Hsu, Murray and Hoane) told me, that Deep Blue only had needed a few seconds more to spot that the played move was a big error.
Jens