Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 14:37:37 10/11/02
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On October 11, 2002 at 16:47:42, martin fierz wrote: >On October 11, 2002 at 16:30:33, Daniel Clausen wrote: > >>On October 11, 2002 at 16:15:21, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >> >>[snip] >> >>>That is exactly what is missing in those games just seen in the match >>>Kramnik-DF... "the chess beauty" ! >> >>Game #2 was a fantastic game in my opinion. You seem to apply that "chess >>beauty" is equal to incredible queen sacs and whatnot. >> >>Sargon > >i have often noticed that what people find beautiful in chess depends on their >understanding of chess. to somebody who plays no chess at all, nothing is >beautiful. to weak players, a queen sac forcing a mate in 2 is beautiful. to >average players, a classic like Bxh7+ Kxh7 Qh5+ Kg8 Ng5 and mate in all forms is >beautiful. for strong players, there is no beauty there - it's just routine. >i have noticed that the stronger i got at chess, the more i could appreciate >other forms of chess beauty. most of the 1600 hacks who post here can't enjoy >those DF-kramnik games as much as i do. hmm, instead of complaining they should >work on their chess :-) > >there's a nice anecdote on this thing: kasparov was once on german TV and they >asked him about such a Bxh7 position - i'm not sure if he could see the board or >not, i think not. it was a forced mate in 8. they wanted to show the viewers who >knew nothing about chess that kasparov would see a mate in 8 in a split second, >blindfolded. but he didnt! he was confused, and didnt give the solution in a >second like anticipated. what happened? he thought: it was an obvious mate in 8 >- how could they ask him to solve something as trivial as that? so he just >refused to answer IIRC. 99 of 100 chess players would be glad to find a >beautiful combination, but kasparov was insulted by it :-) > >aloha > martin LOL! But point well taken! Actually I hadn't heard of the mate in 8 but did read a report months back that was similar, in a pawn ending. http://www.chessbase.com/puzzle/puzzle9/puzz9-1a.htm http://www.chessbase.com/puzzle/puzzle9/puzz9-1b.htm Terry
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