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Subject: Re: Banikas got shafted in the last game (NT)

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 02:57:30 06/15/01

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On June 14, 2001 at 20:00:49, Uri Blass wrote:

>On June 14, 2001 at 18:03:21, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On June 14, 2001 at 13:49:43, Dan Andersson wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>He played reasonably yesterday.  First game today is to suffer thru a
>>Sicilian where white plays g4 early.  Why play into something like that with
>>a machine?
>
>Maybe he simply knows the relevant line and knew from experience that he can get
>an equal endgame against computers from the relevant line.
>
>He got a rook endgame against the machine in game 3
>
>[D]5k2/5ppp/4p3/p5P1/2r1P2P/P4P2/4R1K1/8 w - - 0 1
>
>The rook endgame seems to be equal.
>
>The GM in the previous day won Deep Junior in an equal pawn endgame so I do not
>see something illogical in trading to a rook endgame and hoping to beat the
>machine in the endgame if it does a mistake.
>
>
>
>>  Ditto for game 4.  Amazing strategy.  :)
>
>I do not understand exactly which move do you criticize in game 4.
>
>Which move is leading to a tactical game instead of a positional game?
>
>Uri

Proposed
Definition of tactics: can calculate win, loss or draw.
Definition of strategy: cannot.

:-)



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