Game 1, black
2...Bg4
Commentary for black move 2:
Mr. SEIRAWAN: No. But the truth of the matter is, the openings
were -- will be crucial throughout this entire match, because
what we know today about computers is in sharp, calculating
positions, they can out play everybody, including Garry
Kasparov, the world chess champion. Now, in other types of
positions, closed or blockaded positions, the thinking is that
the human will out play Deep Blue. So Garry has adapted to
that. As white normally Garry plays the sharpest, most
attacking opening lines, but against Deep Blue his style, as he
discovered in the first match, was to adapt, to play a little
bit wagey, to play closed positions, and since he did so well
in game six he's going to find out how Deep Blue is going to
respond.
Mr. ASHLEY: Why is it so hard to program the strategy of closed
positions into computers? It would seem as if the humans would
have solved this problem by /TPHOUR, but computers still, from
what we've seen, does not play closed positions as positions
with pawns still on the board, locking up of lines, still dent
play very well.
Mr. VALVO: You've got to realize that computers think not the
same way that humans do. Humans look at the position and sees
the potential in the position. A computer looks at it and just
sees the position. He answers all the positions, says I'm
ahead, I'm behind, and when it makes a continuation, it
projects all the moves and compares the sum of that position
with the sum of some other position. So it's not really
thinking the way humans move. We have a new move?
Mr. ASHLEY: We do and Kasparov has played an unusual move,
Yaz,
b2-B3. And in the first two moves Deep Blue had responded
instantly but after this new twist Deep Blue has decide to do
give the position a little bit of a think.
Mr. SEIRAWAN: Well, let's just talk about the opening for a
second. One of the things that we hope to do first of all is
to involve our audience in our discussions, and at the same
time not talk completely enlike lopedic about chess, but to
give you some insights about what's going on.
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