Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:39:45 08/27/98
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On August 27, 1998 at 20:21:20, jonathan Baxter wrote: >On August 27, 1998 at 17:15:12, Ralph E. Carter wrote: > >>At one point, the kibitzers were noting that the position was "ugly", and >>correctly pointed out its defects. >>Then over the next fifteen moves, the REAL grandmaster reorganized his position, >>while Junior moved its queen around. >>This game was an embarrassment for Junior. > >It seems like junior is very tactical. Maybe it has been tuned too much >against other computers? > >Jon I think Junior's playing fine... It made two "odd" moves today.. one was Rh5, which put the rook in a bad place, the other was Bh8 which put the bishop on a bad square and also prevented the rook from being able to go to h8-b8 or wherever to get to the queen-side... But the moves were *not* gross errors, just simple positional errors... Yudasin also played some ugly moves along the way, and at one point turned a really significant advantage into nothing with just a couple of moves. He commented on this later. However, he took advantage of a black rook out of play and rushed into a nice tactical position that was winning. But he also *almost* let Junior equalize, although I think that Junior was more interested in kingside activity than queenside, and in this game the queenside was where all the action happened... Yudasin tried to attack on the kingside himself, but after black tangled his pieces (the rook and bishop) he switched to the queen-side quite nicely and broke through there. Well played. However, I disagree that Junior embarassed itself... it repeated the rebel/anand result, which is *not* easy...
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