Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:49:42 10/07/02
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On October 07, 2002 at 12:28:07, Mike S. wrote: >On October 07, 2002 at 07:05:53, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >>Mike, >>and you want to imply that the marathon long surveillance of the Pa5 by the >>Rook could be cured by some opening book tricks? > >No... this was in game #2, but my comment was for game #1 and when Fritz has the >*white* pieces. I thought, (a) Kramnik's most solid defense is the Berlin, and >therefore (b) to have the slightest chance to win White should not play the Ruy >Lopez against him. > >(I don't expect that someone can really hope to surprise Kramnik with a novelty >later in that variation.) > >Or IOW, we all want to see Fritz to go for a win with White I think, and that's >not realistic when the book moves chosen allow Kramnik to play the Berlin >Defense of the Ruy Lopez. > >It may be a good way to draw though, for psychological reasons (Kramnik >satisfied with a draw too, with black), but I think for an event like that this >is not an attractive idea. > >(We'll know more after the other white games of Fritz.) > >Regards, >M.Scheidl I thought Fritz did pretty darn well until that silly h4 move. It had realistic winning chances up to that point (a clear pawn majority on the kingside whereas the queenside was essentially equal). Admittedly, Kramnik is the best at defending this sort of thing and would probably have drawn anyway, but IMHO Fritz did well to achieve such a good position before blowing it with h4. There are probably many other (esp. closed) openings in which Fritz would not have such a good position after 23 moves. It's also entirely possible that a decade from now Kramnik's Berlin will have long been smashed and this period of time (where it works for him) will be looked back on as an anomaly.
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