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

Author: Alastair Scott

Date: 09:05:06 10/13/02

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On October 13, 2002 at 11:24:43, Mustafa wrote:

>Don't u people think that Kramnik really missed and did a huge mistake maybe not
>a mistake but a fixed game how come a gm like him miss his calculations and play
>Qc4?? knowing that Ne7+ will win the knight how come he can do this.He knew that
>if he will play qc4?? then Ne7 will win the game a 1800 guy can think about this
>just prediction of 1 move after the move he played that was not a blunder fixed
>game i think.

In that over-excited jumble of words you appear not to have realised that
blunders happen and conspiracy theories are unnecessary*.

The first game of Fischer versus Spassky 1972 is your starting point - I
remember reading something along the lines of 'in the audience at so-and-so
chess club** a kid suggested that Fischer played ... Bxh2. Everyone laughed. He
played it' - and there are literally dozens, if not hundreds, of similar
blunders through history.

That said, if I'd had Kramnik's position after move 25 or so I'd have offered a
draw with a suggestion that all participants, including the computer, retire to
the bar ...

Alastair

* I find it rather sickening and childish that, every time a strong human loses
to a strong computer, the cry of "fix" goes up.

** Physically travelling to a chess club to watch an important game as it
unfolds - how quaint :)



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