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Subject: Re: Loosing move by DF.. 12..Bf8 *The beauty of Kramnik's art*

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 13:36:56 10/06/02

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On October 06, 2002 at 15:26:38, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On October 06, 2002 at 13:45:32, Rex wrote:
>
>>Can someone explain this one or is Kramnik the only player to give a reason.
>>Please dont give me this 8 CPU deep thought excuse again like the h4 move.
>>
>>Why Bf8
>>
>>[D] r3k2r/1b1n1ppp/p3pn2/1pb5/8/1N2PN2/PP2BPPP/R1BR1K2 b kq - 0 1
>
>My idea for that one.
>
>Queens are exchanged, Kramnik might have found such "moves", we would call
>blunder in human chess, because FRITZ might think that from now on direct King
>safety is less important. So loss of tempi should be less important. Hence FRITZ
>can "fully concentrate" on the optimal positioning of the pieces. Castling comes
>much later.
>
>Of course this is real nonsense and no human chess player, either GM or beginner
>would play Bf8!
>
>I think that Kramnik showed a good example today of what will happen if the best
>humans once tried to enter into real fighting chess mode. The almost primitive
>saccing on g5 is far too average for a real artist. Chess has some thousands
>more of such tricks. But it would be bad if the masters would tell them before
>they all had their own 1-million dollar "match".
>
>BTW, the way I could understand the character of Vladimir, he will now be
>content to hold 50% in the next 6 games. He has already demonstrated with
>certainty that he's 100 times stronger than this ignorant chess program.
>It was a deep deception for me to see how little hundreds of people on the Fritz
>server could enjoy this sort of simple and artistically ingeniuos play by
>Kramnik. This was a game which proved almost mathematically why humans are still
>better than machines. And before chess couldn't be solved, such games with
>different motifs will be reproduced.
>
>I'm sad that I can't say different here to the many computer chess friends.
>
>Rolf Tueschen


I'm a computer chess friend and I'm glad that Kramnik won. I will be glad if
Kramnik will win the whole match (but hopefully not 6:2). What would be our
hobby, if the machines already played stronger than every human? A boring
algorithm-catching which noone could understand...



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