Author: James Robertson
Date: 16:31:56 07/07/00
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On July 07, 2000 at 17:28:27, blass uri wrote: >On July 07, 2000 at 17:23:32, Peter Kappler wrote: > >>On July 07, 2000 at 16:54:45, blass uri wrote: >> >>>On July 07, 2000 at 16:35:37, James Robertson wrote: >>> >>>>On July 07, 2000 at 16:10:24, Peter Kappler wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>>Agreed - Junior was winning that game. Looking forward to seeing some post >>>>>mortem analysis. >>>>> >>>>>--Peter >>>> >>>>I'll start the postmortem by adding a question mark to 13. b4? >>>> >>>>James >>> >>>I agree. >>> >>>Maybe 13.b4 is not a losing move and it may be even one of the best move by the >>>32 piece tablebases that only god knows but I see no reason for white to push >>>himself to a position that he has to fight all the game for a draw. >>> >>>Uri >> >> >>I'm sure Bareev would never play 13. b4?! against any human player. I can only >>speculate that he had good results in a practice game against Junior with a >>similar idea and decided to give it a try. >> >>Junior was clearly better, but didn't play incisively enough to win. I saw 3 or >>4 king moves before move 50 that were typical "I don't know what to do now" >>computer moves. > >I am not sure if Junior could win. > >The typical computers move are not the reason that Junior did not win because >Qe2-Qc2 moves also wasted time. > >Uri Wasting time was what white wanted though. He blockaded the position and waited for black to open it up, but only on white's terms. James
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