Illinois Chess Bulletin Julio - Agosto 2002 | Page 40

Unexpected Visit
friendly competition and a cross-pollination of ideas
and Joel felt that he learned most of his chess ideas
and concepts from his friends.
Grandmaster Benjamin said he has written a book
about his involvement with IBM, but as of yet, he has
not been able to negotiate the deal he wants from a
publisher. He would also like to do a book about his
chess games as he thinks there is not enough wellannotated games collections.
Those who attended this unexpected event voiced
their appreciation of the talk and Grandmaster

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(Joel said Deep Blue’s last move, 37. Be4! really
irritated Garry, because when Garry and his people
ran their computers, even for 24 hours their computers
did not “come up” with this move They thought this
could not be a “computer move”. Joel said the
purpose of the move was to stop 37…e5-e4 and
…Qe5 forming a bishop and queen battery on the dark
squares which could cause problems for the White
king.)

37...Rxa2 38.Qxa2 Qd7 39.Qa7 Rc7 40.Qb6 Rb7
41.Ra8+ Kf7 42.Qa6 Qc7 43.Qc6 Qb6+ 44.Kf1 Rb8
45.Ra6
(And finally towards the end of the game,
Grandmaster Benjamin said the Deep Blue allowed
Black to potentially play 45...Qe3 because the
perpetual check was beyond the computer’s horizon).
45... h5 1–0
In other discussion of the match, Grandmaster
Benjamin said that he thought that the World
Champion would done better to have stuck to his
regular openings and that Garry was poorly advised in
his anti-computer strategies.
At present, Grandmaster Benjamin said that
he is doing more teaching to young chess players in
the New York area and less playing than in the pas t.
When asked how he became a strong player,
he had an answer that I had never heard before. He
said that he and Michael Wilder and some other young
chess players were good friends and attended lots of
tournaments together. They went over a lot of their
games together and this association provided a
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