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Subject: Re: Can't Kramnik Calculate the 2 moves will be played as he played Qc4??

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 08:47:06 10/13/02

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On October 13, 2002 at 11:37:20, Tim Mirabile wrote:

>Humans tend to blunder because of pressure.  Kramnik was faced with a difficult
>defense of a Q+N ending, and just cracked.  Ask Kasparov about his problems
>against Genius in a Q+N ending in the Intel Grand Prix.  Computers are known to
>be very tough there, and perhaps Kramnik was preoccupied with this very thought
>during the game.
>
>As for the simplicity of the blunder, these kind of things happen all the time
>in chess clubs.  One strong player will make a simple blunder to another, and a
>weaker player watching will wonder why they don't make such blunders against
>him?  The answer of course is that the weaker player doesn't put them under
>enough pressure.

Hi Tim
Well done your remarks .
Kurt



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