Author: Alessio Iacovoni
Date: 01:57:54 08/28/98
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On August 27, 1998 at 20:39:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... 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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