Author: martin fierz
Date: 14:39:35 04/14/02
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On April 14, 2002 at 16:53:25, Slater Wold wrote:
>On April 14, 2002 at 16:27:08, Stephen A. Boak wrote:
>
>>On April 14, 2002 at 16:16:57, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>>
>>>[Event "?"]
>>>[Site "?"]
>>>[Date "????.??.??"]
>>>[Round "?"]
>>>[White "GM Smirin"]
>>>[Black "Deep Shredder"]
>>>[Result "1-0"]
>>>[ECO "A22"]
>>>[Annotator "Frederic"]
>>>[PlyCount "48"]
>>>
>>>1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 Bb4 4. Bg2 O-O 5. e4 Bxc3 6. bxc3 d6 7. Ne2 Bg4 8. f3
>>>Be6 9. d3 {Time: 57:13 - 57:13} 9... c5 {
>>>Jeremia: The open b-line is good for White} 10. O-O h6 11. h3 a6 12. a4 {
>>>Dual Pentium Intel 1 GHz 750 MB RAM. Time 53:07 - 55:32} 12... b6 13. f4 Nc6
>>>14. f5 Bd7 15. g4 {Time 52:04 - 53:09} 15... Qc7 {
>>>A typical anti-computer crush, people think} 16. Ng3 {"Smirin is going for
>>>mate!" (EJ) - "Don't count Shredder out, counterplay can come in many ways"
>>>(Hytnen)} 16... Na5 17. h4 Nh7 {"Smirin fumbles and drops Pocket Fritz on the
>>>floor" (Longshanks) - Time 48:22 - 48:40} 18. g5 hxg5 19. hxg5 {
>>>"Hallali, oooohhhh" -- Hiarcs 8: +1.55} 19... Qb7 {
>>>Fritz wants Qh5 at 11 ply. Hiarcs 8 agrees, with +2.59} 20. Be3 {
>>>Time 44:19 - 44:45 Geordi: "Shredder's radar seems to be busted!"} 20... b5 {
>>>Tiger: 1.66 Sleepy: Smirin is kicking himself for not playing Qh5 right away.}
>>>21. axb5 axb5 22. Qh5 {Siam: "Boooommm" Fritz 1.78, Hiarcs 8: 2.47} 22... bxc4
>>>23. f6 {Is Shredder playing badly or Smirin brilliantly? Boris: Shredder must
>>>keep its cool now. Hiarcs: +3.30! Time: 42:56 - 41:25 "Poor Shreddy" (Ognaramr)
>>>Jeremia: "Go, Smirin, go, go, go!" Knallo: Think of it as a win for humanity!
>>>Smirin has left the board. Black is down ot 33 minutes.} 23... Rfc8 24. fxg7 {
>>>Karabella: Hunting Red October! Woodcrusher: Hasta la vista, Shredder! Hiarcs:
>>>+6.38! Henni: Shredder overlooked king safety badly. "Smirin is in the butt
>>>kickin business" (NYTed)} 24... Bg4 {Fly: Call Shredder's mom and tell her
>>>he's not coming home. Times: 40:35 - 20:10. LeMagician: "I want to see MATE!"
>>>Hiarcs: 9.27 for White. Krennwurzn: "Shredder to God: please let him blunder!"}
>>>1-0
>>
>>An unpredicted hush falls over the Comps_R_GMs assembly hall....
>
>It's amazing what 100 Elo actually means.
i don't think it's the 100 elo difference to gulko. it's "be prepared". look at
gulko playing as white: he typically just hoovered the board to get a draw -
"get the queens off ASAP", and in his comments he explained that this had been
his aim. most anticomp games where comps look *really* stupid are with queens
on, with a closed position where the human moves everything towards the enemy
king and the comp sees it too late. this game is a great example. another good
example is one of the two white games of van wely-rebel (ive forgotten which -
not the one with the long ending), where van wely wins a pawn after about 18
moves. gulko was not prepared for playing against computers - according to his
own words, which many here don't seem to believe. i believe it - his games show
that he didnt know the most effective anticomp strategy.
what i think will be really interesting is to see how smirin will do as black -
van wely and gulko were doing relatively much worse as black...
i also think that the financial incentive for smirin is a very important factor,
because this is what makes that he is well-prepared. and i think this game shows
he is prepared :-)
aloha
martin
aloha
martin
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