Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 08:15:30 09/06/02
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On September 05, 2002 at 19:09:01, José Carlos wrote: >On September 05, 2002 at 18:20:00, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On September 05, 2002 at 18:01:03, Stuzzi Kadent wrote: >> >>>I do not play chess tournaments, but am aware of various time controls, and the >>>perceived demand in the professional world (marketing, if not playing) for >>>shorter time controls. >>>I recognise it would be better to do away with adjournments because computers >>>and databases deal with them too efficiently. >> >>I do not know about tournament with adjournments in the last years. >>I remember tournaments with adjournments only many years ago. >> >>Unfortunately it seems to me that tournament with adjournment are hostory. >> >>I do not buy the excuse that people can use computers in the adjournment because >>in the past they could also use advices of other players in the adjournment so >>if today computers are reason to avoid adjournment then it means that humans >>were a good reason to avoid adjournment in the past. >> >>Uri > > You got a point, but I disagree. I remember a Spain-ch (1994 I think). I was >playing there but my results were quite bad. A friend of mine had an adjourned >game against a very proud guy. My fiend was a pawn down in a rook ending. A >frind of the other guy said "my friend's gonna win easily because I'm helping >him analyze". So I took the bet and helped my friend. I didn't care standing >awaken all night long because I had a bad tournament. > So we did. > At near 4am we found a very deep and interesting idea. We felt happy and kept >analyzing. Later on we thoght it shold be drawn. I said "go to bed and sleep a >couple of hours, I'll review the analysis. > When he woke up, I told him everything seemed to be right, we reviewd all the >lines and he went to play. I was crashing, but couldn't help watching the game. >It was so exciting. > There came a new adjournment, in a pawn ending. A pawn down, but most probably >drawn. We went analyzing again. Draws everywhere. > And again to play. Damn! the opponent had found something. It seemed he could >win. I was dead tired and couldn't see a draw, but my friend thougth for half an >hour and found a great idea. Final result: draw! > I was sooo happy! > Well, with computer analysis all of this is gone forever. That's very sad. > > José C. On the contrary! With computers these analysis will go deeper and become more interesting! Or do you think a computer can draw a rook- or pawnending (except of 5-pieces of course) easily? I'm sure if someone only relies on the analyzes of a computer for an endgame he'll get problems against opponents which analyses with computer and (human) assistants.
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