Author: martin fierz
Date: 14:12:53 10/07/02
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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 at the moment when kramnik played Rd5+ you can be sure that he had calculated the win 100%. there is a simple rule in chess, which goes like this: "never trade into a pawn endgame if you are not 100% sure of it's outcome". kramnik had a different win with rxa5 and if he traded into the pawn ending he was 100% sure. those who suggest that time trouble might have been a factor here don't seem to know that a) kramnik had already calculated the win and could have played the rest of the game a tempo and b) kramnik could have adjourned the game on the next move and looked at it at home for a whole day! aloha martin
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