Author: Mike S.
Date: 15:18:16 09/30/02
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On September 30, 2002 at 17:35:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: >I don't personally buy into the playing the same opening type of idea. > >However, I do buy into the idea that Kramnik is going to find several >significant positional weaknesses, and do his best to play into games that >highlight those issues... That is a real problem, because book learning >won't help Yes, I guess that too... Also, to apply an anticompuer strategy like in the stonewall, he will probably try how he can reach a certain *pawn structure*, eventually by non-theoretical continuations or by using transpositions. At least that would be how I would try it. I think for this type of ideas move order and the position of the minor/major pieces is not important, only the pawns, like P d4/e3/f4. An interesting example is the first Smirin game from his recent computer match, where he copied a previous anticomputer game Van Wely - Fritz, as it was explained in the game commentary on www.chessbase.com. Here the positions after White's 9th move each, 9.d3 in both games. 1. Van Wely - Fritz, Dutch Championship 2000 [D]r1bq1rk1/1pp2ppp/p1np1n2/4p3/P1P1P3/2PP2P1/5PBP/R1BQK1NR b KQ - 0 9 2. Smirin - Deep Shredder 2002 [D]rn1q1rk1/ppp2ppp/3pbn2/4p3/2P1P3/2PP1PP1/P3N1BP/R1BQK2R b KQ - 0 9 Smirin could win with nearly the same moves during his kingside attack, disregarding the differencies between the positions on the queenside. With Black, I guess Kramnik may try to exchange queens quickly, like he often did against Kasparov in the WCh match. Regards, Mike Scheidl
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