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Subject: Re: Nolot #3 - In defense of GM Smagin

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:21:59 02/09/04

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On February 09, 2004 at 08:39:31, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On February 08, 2004 at 22:50:05, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>If case you have not figured this out by now, my intent it to continue with
>>posting all 11 of the Nolot positions, dig up the game score from the actual
>>game -- post the orginal comments made by Pierre Nolot (original author of the
>>article where these positions were discussed)  and Feng-Hsiung Hsu, Deep Blue
>>Inventor, who was preparing Deep Thought/Deep Blue for the match with Kasparov
>>that was to come in 1995 and took a keen interest in these positions.  He
>>believed that if Deep Blue were able to solve  these type of  positions quickly,
>>Deep Blue would have a very good shot at defeating Kasparov. It is interesting
>>to see what today's software on fast hardware  think of these positions.
>>
>>So far these posts have gone very well and I appeciate everyone who has
>>particpated in this excercise.
>>
>>Nolot #3 is  a semi-controversial position as there are many doubters that the
>>claimed winning move is truly a forced win.  When one also considers the nearly
>>200 point in the ratings of the particpants, it easier to understand why the
>>favored player, GM Sergey Smagin, now 47, played the daring and very complicated
>
>[d]r2qk2r/ppp1b1pp/2n1p3/3pP1n1/3P2b1/2PB1NN1/PP4PP/R1BQK2R w - - bm Nxg5; 3
>f3g5
>
>I have studied it too and came to the conclusion that Nxg5 is a beautiful and
>very deep win. Nothing controversial about it.
>
>Please realise Feng-Hsiung Hsu has a rating of a 1000 points or so and his thing
>positional 2000 or so. He doesn't realize of course that black effectively is
>not playing after Nxg5.

Hsu's rating is irrelevant for discussion about this position.

I did not study this position but these kind of posts is the reason that people
do not like you.

You could claim that you believe that Nxg5 is better without becoming personal
against Hsu but unfortunately instead of comparing evaluation of positions after
Nxg5 and Bxg5 you chose to go for a personal attack.

Uri



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