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Subject: Re: Brilliant win by Kasparov!!: What about 30. ... Rhe8!?

Author: blass uri

Date: 15:30:20 01/21/99

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On January 21, 1999 at 14:07:06, Mike CastaƱuela wrote:

>On January 21, 1999 at 13:35:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On January 21, 1999 at 12:33:54, Soren Riis wrote:
>>
>>>On January 21, 1999 at 11:55:57, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 21, 1999 at 09:17:32, Soren Riis wrote:
>>>
>>>>>Robert Hyatt seems to be losing his head here. Let me remind Mr. Hyatt
>>>>>that any
>>>>>chess position either is lost, is a draw or a is win for white. Hyatt >>statement that every game he has ever gone over carefully has at least one
>>>>> blunder indicates that he does not include many of numerous wellknown drawing >> lines.
>>>>>Many of these was first played as a game between GMs. If he only include game >>in which white/black won his finding is hardly surprising, but is rather a >>simple logical consequence of the nature of the game.
>>>>
>>>>I don't have a clue what you are talking about.  I am talking about OTB games
>>>>mainly ones that I watch being relayed to chess servers.  But I'll say this
>>>>again, slowly this time:
>>>>
>>>>   "every GM game that I have gone over in detail, using a computer for
>>>>    analysis, has had at least one blunder, often two or three.  These
>>>>    'blunders' don't always lose, because (ie today in Kasparov vs
>>>>    Reinderman) a blunder is occasionally matched by a blunder from the
>>>>    other side, or because the blunder is the difference between a score
>>>>    of +5 and +2."
>>>>
>>>>So I'm not "losing" anything at all.  I simply made a comment that I can back
>>>>up in probably any sample game you care to submit.
>>>
>>>You seems to suggest Kasparov made a blunder which was matched by another
>>>blunder. To me it seems that it is you who are making a blunder. If Kasparov
>>>made a blunder we must conclude that white had a clear lasting advantage
>>>position around move 19. The only alternative to 24:Rxd4 is 24:Nc6 which I doubt
>>>you are claiming is winning for white. PLEASE TELL ME WHAT WAS KASPAROVS
>>>BLUNDER! You claim kasparov made a blunder so it must be fair to ask you which
>>>of his moves was a blunder. Also what is your distintion between a blunder and a
>>>weak move? You really seems to be saying Kasporov had a won position around move
>>>19?
>>>
>>>What was the blunder in todays game played by Anand?
>>>
>>>As your statement stands it is obviously false - it is like a piece en prise.
>>>
>>
>>Then lets leave it at that.  That is your opinion.  "obviously false" doesn't
>>say much, because I don't see anything obvious about it.  You have somehow
>>really turned around what I posted, so I am going to try to correct you one
>>more time.  Please pay attention:
>>
>>Kasparov played the move Rxd4.  He won the game.  But it is _not_ clear that
>>Rxd4 is winning.
>
>Again. In the posts of J. Noomen, S. Riis and me, it isn't the point.
>One thing that the computers don't understand is beauty.
>Matemathics (how you are, or scientific) is too one important element
>of the game. But, at the heat of a game between humans, the esthetical
>(beauty) of Rxd4 is not comprised by, say us: +-, 1.2 pawns,
>'incorrect sacrifuce', etc.
>Kasparov plays Rxd4 and, to the look of us (humans), this is
>beautiful. This is enhanced by the fact, that, by analysis carried
>until now, with best defense of black (30... Rhe8)

Best defense for black is probably 24...Kb6.
Programs find 24...Kb6 after a long time and evaluate the position as a smalll
advantage for black.

Uri




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