NLL Insider - The Chess match begins by Rootsey, updated on Saturday, April 30 2016, 08:16 pm EST In
1996 Deep Blue an Artificial Intelligence and Super Computer created by
IBM was set to play against one of the greatest chess minds the world
had seen, Garry Kasparov in a best of 6 series of Chess matches. It
marked the first time in history that a computer beat a world chess
champion in tournament conditions. 20 years later we see Garry
(pistolpk) vs Deep Blue (proid) reignite the fire and continue the
battle of computer v human. Back in '96 Deep Blue won the first
game of the series, similar to the first game of the Cavs/Heat battle in
progress. In both games the computing power that Deep Blue had caught
Garry off-guard. In the Cavs/Heat battle the Heat lined up with a
rotation that was familiar to us all, JR Smith in the starting line up.
JR had played all season as a starter in one position or another and
that had lead Miami to the playoffs. On the Cavs side of the rotation
Lebron was playing the 3-spot and matching up against Rudy Gay. The game
went as the crowd predicted Miami winning 101 - 93 battle in which they
won 3 out of the 4 quarters and only lost the third quarter by a point.
The match was in their control from start to finish. Miami had team
wide balance on offense save the power forward spot where Duncan and
West combined for 6 points. The Cavs had the same balance with Ibaka and
Robinson putting only 11 points on the board between them. The points
spread is unsurprising as both teams play an identical style of
basketball and have similar playbooks. Back in '96 again we see
the tables turn with Kaparov making some adjustments to his strategy
and a poor move by Deep Blue to see the human beat the machine. The
adjustments we saw in Game 2 for Cavs may have been the crux of what
instigated the turn around where they dominated every quarter, with only
the first quarter being close. In game two we saw Lebron move to the
2-spot. He improved his scoring slightly but his efficiency from the
field improved from 8/18 to 11/18. The game also saw Parker get
unleashed with 38 points including 11 from the stripe. Whether this
change in results all fell at the feet of the Cavs adjustment is hard to
tell, as Kyle Korver was promoted to the starting line up for the Heat
and JR sent to the bench. JR still played 30 mins, but dropped his
scoring output from 25 in game 1 down to 12 in game 2. Korver, with his
extra time only improved to 13 points as a starter as opposed to 9 off
the bench. Back in '96 the next two games go to a draw and the
final two games are won by Kasparov and he wins the series 4-2. Will we
see pistolpk and the Cavs continue their game two success with Lebron as
a shooting guard, or will JR Smith get the nod to start again and that
swings the balance of power back to Miami. This series can go either
way, and the next two games could either make or break it wide open. We
have a 7 games series to determine the winner for a reason, it allows
time for adjustments, it allows us to make mistakes, but as in Chess
will the next adjustment be one mistake that breaks the series open. | | | |
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