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Subject: Re: GMs are amazing

Author: blass uri

Date: 10:40:04 07/15/00

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On July 15, 2000 at 13:23:14, Alvaro Polo wrote:

>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 disagree.
The position was position that computers know to play and this is the reason
that anand agreed to a draw.

Maybe Junior could win without the move that you called "smartest" move.

Uri



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