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Subject: Re: GMs are amazing

Author: Alvaro Polo

Date: 10:23:14 07/15/00

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On July 15, 2000 at 13:00:17, blass uri wrote:

>On July 15, 2000 at 12:51:03, Alvaro Polo wrote:
>
>>On July 15, 2000 at 12:08:14, blass uri wrote:
>>
>>>On July 15, 2000 at 11:59:08, Michael de la Maza wrote:
>>>
>>>>Junior is humming along, not losing a single game, and forcing some of the best
>>>>players in the world to play perfectly in order to salvage draws.
>>>>
>>>>Then Kramnik illustrates how to punish Junior.
>>>>
>>>>_All_ of the GMs _instantly_ get it.  Some of them apply the lessons better than
>>>>others, but all of them make Junior look silly and none of them lose.
>>>
>>>silly?
>>>
>>>I do not agree.
>>>You must be very smart in order to draw against GM's like anand and akopian.
>>>
>>
>>In Anand's case the smartness belong to J6's operator.
>
>I disagree.
>Junior got equal positions against anand.
>Anand offered a draw because he knew that Junior is probably smart enough not to
>lose aganst him.

Junior got equal position against Anand, yes, but after just 20 moves. This is
too little, in my opinion. Who knows what could happen 20 moves later? That's
why I say that the "smartest" move was done by the operator.

Alvaro

>
>I do not like the draw but Junior was smart enough to get a situation when anand
>offered it a draw.
>
>Uri



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