Author: Bernhard Bauer
Date: 07:00:48 11/28/01
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On November 28, 2001 at 09:10:31, K. Burcham wrote: > >dont get me wrong, i am very well aware that the best we have in this sport is >what we call a super GM. against other humans these guys seem to be >unbelievable. >But today we have our programs exposing their inferior play. no i do not expect >perfect play from a gm or super gm. but we can analyize their games like never >before. gm and super gms have always had the luxury that no one could really >rate their play except another high rated player or another gm. >in the old days, we would try to go through each move of a gm game, we would be >thinking, what is he trying to accomplish here, what is the purpose of this >line, positional, material etc. then when finished we would wonder, well maybe >i missed something, or maybe i dont really understand the position. >but lesser players dont have this problem today. >we have our programs. This reminds me of a game I saw when I was young. It was the game Janowsky - Marshall which was highly praised by the book author. In the game Janowsky attacked at the king side while Marshall grabed the weak white pawns at the queen side. At White's 37. move there was a question mark. The game went on for many moves, I think over 70. Finaly Marshall won. The author of the book claimed white would have won if he had played differently at move 37. I could never find out how to win at move 37. Of course I was too stupid. When I analyzed that game with a program it could find no win for white at move 37. So White's attack was not that good. It was bad to give the queen side pawns away. Why did the game last so long? Well Marshall had several chances to win at once, but he didn't used them. After all it wasn't such a great game. To this conclusion I came by computer analysis. Before I had the feeling I didn't understand the game, now I think I have a much better understanding. Kind regards Bernhard > >kburcham
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