History/Geography Trivia

[zen-r]

Even I know the first 2 answers to that question.

But I'll leave it to ichwar since the question was addressed to him (& he might know the 3rd answer as well)

 

[fguy64]

zen-r, feel free to jump in, I only mentioned ichwar cause he seems to be right on top of this thread.

 

[zen-r]

OK, sorry ichwar - I'll leave the 3rd part to you (or someone else if you're quick enough).

1) Deep Blue

2) I'm pretty sure this must be IBM. They had a pretty dominant position in computing back then. After all, there was a time when PCs made by anyone else had to be called "IBM clones"!

I do have a slight advantage here remembering this match - ichwar could only have been about 4 at the time!

 

[fguy64]

You are correct. The famous 6th game can be viewed here. Kasparov blundered on his 7th move, he struggled on for another 10 moves, but there was no hope.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070917

 

[zen-r]

Thanks, I'll give the game a quick watch tomorrow morning.

I just remembered another reason why the computer was most likely made by IBM : the nickname for IBM was Big Blue (hence Deep Blue!)

 

[ichwar]

You are correct. The famous 6th game can be viewed here. Kasparov blundered on his 7th move, he struggled on for another 10 moves, but there was no hope.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070917

och, that was not a good blunder. hehe.

 

[zen-r]

Rather than resigning, I probably would have battled on regardless (would you?) You never know, the computer might then have made it's own mistake (especially if you believe the conspiracy theory that IBM had a team of real people actually deciding the moves for the computer!)

I expect the resignation may have been influenced by Kasparov being a bit tired of playing by then, & also his annoyance with the whole human V computer set-up.

So ichwar, did you know the answer to the 3rd part of the question?

 

[ichwar]

Yes and No. Does that answer your two questions?

 

[fguy64]

Rather than resigning, I probably would have battled on regardless (would you?) You never know, the computer might then have made it's own mistake (especially if you believe the conspiracy theory that IBM had a team of real people actually deciding the moves for the computer!)

I expect the resignation may have been influenced by Kasparov being a bit tired of playing by then, & also his annoyance with the whole human V computer set-up.

So ichwar, did you know the answer to the 3rd part of the question?

good point zen-r. At our level, it is worth it to play on. But at the level that Kasparov and Deep Blue play at, this sort of position is a no-brainer imo. The only reason Kasparov played on is because he was being paid a fortune to put on a show, so he had an obligation to the sponsors. I'm sure Kasparov knew he was toast after Deep Blue played its 8th move.

 

[ichwar]

we should start an x10 chess tournament!

 

[zen-r]

Feel free. You don't need any software, just start a thread & people can post their moves online.

You could go with a normal, 2 player version. Or come up with a clever version involving 2 teams. I don't know how that would work though - perhaps whoever posts the move first for each team. But that would lead to some very fast playing, as everyone rushes to get their post in first!

 

[fguy64]

we should start an x10 chess tournament!

I have some ideas about that. Why don't you start up a separate thread in games or off topic, and we'll bounce a few ideas and see where it goes.

 

[ichwar]

hmmm, ok.

 

[zen-r]

Has this thread died then, or have you just, in effect, moved it to this thread? ;

http://forums.x10hosting.com/forum-games/98179-who-am-i.html

 

[ichwar]

Both!!! hehe.

 

[fguy64]

Has this thread died then, or have you just, in effect, moved it to this thread? ;

http://forums.x10hosting.com/forum-games/98179-who-am-i.html

neither. The Who Am I thread is specifically about people and questions are phrased in a certain way, but I suppose most of the questions could just as easily have been asked here. I'd rather keep this thread and ignore or delete the Who Am I thread.

 

[ichwar]

hmmm, both of the two threads seem to be dead. Why don't we just have a mod lock these two and we can start a new thread called The Question Thread. There, we can ask any type of question, not geography or person relevant?

 

[zen-r]

I think it's entirely up to fguy64 what he wants to do with these threads, since he started them.

If you were to go with closing them & starting another more general purpose thread, you'd probably better not call it The Question Thread. That sounds too much like http://forums.x10hosting.com/forum-games/97574-question-game.html.

Maybe something more like The Trivia Game?

 

[ichwar]

Or, 'zener lightning round'!

 

[fguy64]

I don't care. Sure, we could can this thread and the Who Am I thread and start up a new one just called Trivia, so we can include sports and entertainment. That might keep it going longer. I'd like to keep it real though, The Question Thread seemed to get kind of silly.