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Subject: Re: DID KASPAROV REALLY MISSED 25..F4,?I THINK THE MATCH IS FIXED

Author: Alastair Scott

Date: 00:56:50 01/29/03

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On January 28, 2003 at 22:03:56, Carlos Lantigua wrote:

>Let´s be sincere, a super GM of the calibre of Kasparov couldnt missed the
>winning move 25, imagine if Kasparov would won game 2, the match wouldnt be
>interesting for the public and for the comercial interest of DJ, Kasparov and DJ
>team agree he would win the match on a very narrow margin, perhaps 1 or 1/2,
>thus Kasparov and DJ would be happy.

I appreciate that 'nobody likes a bad day at work' is a not unobjectionable
sentiment, but a Fritz 8 search shows not a lot of difference between ... Qa1+
and ... f4 so far (40 minutes, PIII/1.2, 256MB RAM) and other engines are
equivocal:

[D] 2b2rk1/Rp5p/3p1qpQ/2nP1p2/2P1p3/8/P1RN1PPP/6K1 b - - 0 1

Analysis by Fritz 8:

1. (-0.72): 25...f4 26.Nf1 e3 27.Nxe3 Bf5 28.Rc1 Qb2 29.Rd1 fxe3 30.Qxe3 Bd3
31.f3 Bxc4
2. (0.00): 25...Qa1+ 26.Nf1 f4 27.Ra8 e3 28.fxe3 fxe3 29.Qxf8+ Kxf8 30.Rxc8+ Kf7
31.Rc7+ Kf8

(Alastair, London 29.01.2003)

It's interesting that the other engines I try (Crafty 19.01, Comet B55) like ...
Qa1+ straight off and take some time to appreciate the virtues of ... f4,
although the 'virtue' is only 0.50 - 0.75. After that, all three engines go for
Nf1 although Comet had a long think about h4.

Alastair



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