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Subject: Re: Did Kramnik make it difficult for Kasparov?

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 08:46:12 10/27/02

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On October 27, 2002 at 00:52:27, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 26, 2002 at 18:35:30, Yatheen Manicka wrote:
>
>>It seems to that the recently completed match in Bahrain has made things much
>>more difficult for Kasparov in his match v Deep Junior in December.
>>Deep Fritz demonstrated through trial and error how to play "anti-human" chess
>>vs a GM, eg.,keep queens on the board and avoid positional maneuvering.
>
>I do not believe that it is possible to
>keep queens on the board and avoid positional maneuvering.
>
>Kramnik demonstrated mistakes that are not typical for him.
>
>In the match against Fritz he did 2 mistakes of one ply.
>losing a piece and sacrificing a piece.

Why do you call the sacrifice a 1 ply mistake? He thought about that move
for 45 minutes. He took a chance, he had already shown he was superior in the
quiet positions, I think he got bored and wanted to show he could play some
exciting chess, and do it better then fritz too!

It probably wasn't a very good match strategy, since he was only leading by 1
point at the time, but like he said - it could have been the game of his life,
so he had to try it! ;)

I doubt you or anyone else could, at the time, say it was a mistake. In
hindsight things are always painfully clear. It was a bad decision perhaps, but
not a blunder.

I still believe humans are better when they play their best (as Kramnik showed
clearly in the first 3 games), but one must acknowledge other aspects like
concentration and confidence play a role too.

-S.
>He never played similiar errors in all the last serious
>games against humans except one against anand
>when he sacrificed a piece for not enough compensation.
>
>Even about the game against anand I read that people claim
>that kramnik had no good choice(I do not
>know if they are right because I am not a GM
>and I cannot trust my impression or the impression of
>computers as the absulute truth)
>
>Uri



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