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Subject: Re: (GM) van Wely-Fritz

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:59:57 10/10/00

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On October 10, 2000 at 03:47:26, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 09, 2000 at 22:22:55, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>>Look made a huge mistake in the 3rd game.
>>
>>
>>That isn't exactly rare at this time control...  If it weren't for the
>>mistakes, the humans would _never_ lose.  :)
>
>The mistake in this game was a simple tactical mistake.
>Van wely did not see that the knight at g4 is not defended after Qd8.
>
>[D]2q1nr2/r5kp/p2p1pp1/P1pPp3/1pP1P1nQ/3B4/1P3PPP/R3RNK1 b - - 0 1
>
>I think that players with rating of 2000 are going to be careful enough to avoid
>this type of mistake in most of their 25 10 games.
>
>Uri

it happens.  At Las Palmas a couple of years ago a GM missed a potential mate
in 2 that was obvious to everybody else.  The only way out was to give up his
queen.

Doesn't happen every couple of games, but often enough that it isn't a surprise
to me to see it happen.



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