Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 08:05:57 10/07/02
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On October 07, 2002 at 10:54:11, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >On October 07, 2002 at 10:09:14, Ed Panek wrote: > >>GM commentator Nigel Short was >>critical of the Fritz Team's decision to resign. "At least for the thousands of >>chess fans out there who will see this game and not understand why black >>resigned," he said. "There are several long variations for white to calculate, >>many choices to make, it's not that simple. Black should have played on for >>at least 10 more moves." >> >> >> I agree. I dont think that just because Fritz evaluations drops very low that >>Fritz should resign. If the Strentgh of the computer is its ability to navigate >>long lines and make no tactical mistakes, while it takes much more work for a >>human to do this, and the eval is thinking according to perfect play...why not >>make them sweat it out. >> >>Chess is war. This is the beginning of the match. Doesnt long term implications >>of stress come into play? And if it irritates Kramnik...even better. >> >> >> >>Ed > >I cannot take Nigel Short's comments serious. When I followed the game live, the >winning move Rd5+ came to my mind within seconds, and after one or two minutes >of thinking time I was quite sure that the pawn ending would be lost for Black. >There is no doubt - that's my opinion - that a GM would play Rd5+ in a blitz >game. But of course, Kramnik wanted to be absolutely sure before playing the >winning move the more so, since he could also have an easy win with Rxa5. >Kurt There were still ways to go wrong and the tension of the match may have had some influence. If Kramniks comments are taken at face value then he did not find it as easy as some of the commentators. I still recall the rook and pawn ending of Kasparov versus Short in 1993 where Short played on in a technically lost position, Kasparov blundered (win to draw) and Short missed it. Frank
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