Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 15:54:45 10/08/02
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On October 08, 2002 at 18:52:17, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >On October 08, 2002 at 18:45:52, Mike S. wrote: > >>>Yes, exchanging the qeens early seems to be one of the main strategies of >>Kramnik for this match, which isn't surprising because he did that against >>Kasparov too, with Black. Maybe he asked his seconds something like "Find me all >>kinds of (side-)variants with an early exchange of the queens." This would seem >>reasonable to me, since this is the most important anticomputer effect of his >>"Berlin Wall" strategy with black against Kasparov. They could have tested it >>with retail versions of the Fritz books, how likely it is that Fritz goes into >>that variants (the match book can't be too much different IMO). It looks now, >>that not only the Ruy Lopez is dangerous for Fritz in that respect, but probably >>many other openings too, unfortunately... >> >>Regards, >>Mike Scheidl >> >> >>>I think that people of Chessbase, but in general CC has still a lot of "room >>>for improvement" in endgame phase. >>> >>>w.b.r. >>>Otello > > >Thanks for your answer. >I have just pointed my browser at http://www.brainsinbahrain.com and in the >comments of the latest game is written: > >[...] >"It was almost a shame to see the nice position Fritz had created out of the >opening spoil like date pudding in the Bahraini sun. The super-program knew it >was in trouble but didn't see any way out as Kramnik began to squeeze. The >middle of the board fell under the control of his rooks and he smoothly >transformed that into a winning pawn endgame. This pattern is very reminiscent >of the last game and highlights a well-known computer weakness in long-range >endgame planning" >[...] > "...spoil like date pudding in the Bahraini sun" -- what great writing! Is that by Mig G? > >w.b.r. >Otello
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