Dear Tyson Thank you for this ! Very Much appreciated! THIS date IN HISTORY
Feb 10, 1996 Kasparov loses chess game to computer
It is good to know the final outcome of that match!
I had no idea "Draws" were so regular and so many in tournaments.
Thank you for that enlightenment.
With Best Regards,
God Bless,
Alan
Plantation, Sunny South Florida
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From: mordue andrew (Redacted sender "tyson.mordue" for DMARC)
To: usbca_chess
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2018 4:24 AM
Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: THIS date IN HISTORY Feb 10, 1996 Kasparov loses
chess game to computer
Feb 10, 1996 Kasparov loses chess game to computer
Hello all.
Kasparov won the 1996 match against Deep Blue 4-2, After losing the first
game Kasparov won games 2, 5 and 6 with games 3 and 4 being drawn.
Kasparov lost the 1997 rematch 3.5 to 2.5, losing games 1 and 3 whilst
winning game 2. Games 4, 5 and 6 were drawn
All regular matches have an even number of games to give both players
(computers!?) the same number of Whites and Blacks. A large percentage of
top-class master games are drawn. An extreme example is the 1999 Petrosian
Memorial event where 42 of the 45 games were drawn!
Most Men's World Championship matches since WW2 have had well over 50%
draws. Even Bobby Fischer's celebrated win over Boris Spassky in 1972 had 11
draws in the 21 games, the American winning 7-3 in decisive games.However,
he had earlier beaten Taimanov and Larsen 6-0 in the Candidates matches but
these whitewashes were virtually unprecedented in grandmaster praxis.
Regards,
Tyson.
On 11 February 2018 at 02:34 "Matthew.Gibbons12@xxxxxxxxxxxx"
<matthew.gibbons12@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Alan,
Thank you for sending This Day in Chess History out. I enjoy history and I
enjoy chess. First of all, why was it a six game match? Wouldn't it make
more sense if it was a best of five or seven? Second, what was the final
win-loss outcome of the six-game match?
God Bless,
Matthew
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Subject: [usbca_chess] THIS date IN HISTORY Feb 10, 1996 Kasparov loses
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
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Feb 10 Kasparov loses chess game to computer
On this day in 1996, after three hours, world chess champion Garry Kasparov
loses the first game of a six-game match against Deep Blue, an IBM computer
capable of evaluating 200 million moves per second. Man was ultimately
victorious over machine, however, as Kasparov bested Deep Blue in the match
...
With Best Regards,
God Bless,
Alan
Plantation, Florida
