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Subject: Re: Missed Draw by Kramnik

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 13:20:55 10/16/02

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On October 16, 2002 at 16:09:06, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 16, 2002 at 15:51:29, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>On October 16, 2002 at 15:23:12, Ingo Althofer wrote:
>>
>>>Now feature article at the official event site
>>>
>>>http://www.brainsinbahrain.com/
>>>
>>>Ingo Althofer.
>>
>>amazing.
>>
>>I can't believe it...
>
>I also do not understand it.
>
>Kramnik is not a computer.
>
>I could understand computer that resign based on material counting but I expect
>humans to think and resign only if they see a plan for the opponent to win and
>not only to increase the material advantage.
>
>Uri

The only explaination which makes sense to me is that the reason for Kramnik's
resignation must be explained in terms of psychology.  He must have felt a
terrific let-down and maybe something welled up from down under and said "To
Hell with it!"  Something like that.   I utterly and emphatically reject the
notion that the game or the match are fixed. The emotional swings which surely
must have occurred in Kramnik's mind must be the root cause of Kramnik's
behavior in this case.

Bob D.



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