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Subject: Re: Tiger v Smirin Sunday 19:00 GMT (smirin photo included)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:05:42 04/21/02

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On April 21, 2002 at 09:51:06, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>On April 21, 2002 at 09:18:04, Chris Carson wrote:
>
>>On April 21, 2002 at 08:42:47, Otello Gnaramori wrote:
>>
>>>On April 21, 2002 at 07:25:28, Michael Vox wrote:
>>>
>>>>http://www.kasparov.com/serve/templates/folders/show.asp?p_docID=20741&p_docLang=EN
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Begins at 19:00 GMT
>>>>
>>>>Game 4, Tiger - Smirin, Sunday, April 21st
>>>
>>>Have a look on a younger photo of Chess Program Terminator :)
>>>
>>>http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~sherman/Chess/masterprep/images/ilya_small.gif
>>>
>>>b.t.w. in the notes ( http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~sherman/Chess/masterprep/ ) you
>>>can read "At UMBC, Smirin studies computer science and plays on the UMBC Chess
>>>Team"...computer science !?!
>>>
>>>
>>>w.b.r.
>>>Otello
>>
>>Impressive!  This should make GM Smirin one of the best at defeating the
>>programs.  I am surprised that he is not dominating this match.  GM, 2700rating,
>>$1500/win and strong computer experience.
>>
>>Congrats to the programmsers!  Thanks to GM Smirin for the great games!
>
>He is pretty much dominating the match, DJ7 was lucky to escape a piece down!

I do not think that it was luck.
I think that it was a mistake of smirin to let Junior sacrificing a piece for
two pawns(it is hard after it to win the game).

Smirin could do better by playing different moves but sometimes the evaluation
of humans is simply wrong.

I think that other possibilities like winning a pawn by Rxg7 could give smirin
better practical chances but maybe my evaluation is wrong and it is easy to give
advices after you know the final result.

I guess that Rxg7 is not the only way to win the game but it seems to me the
simplest way from human's point of view.

It is all guessing and I did not analyze the game enough to be sure that Rxg7 is
winning.

Uri



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