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

Author: allan johnson

Date: 22:47:03 10/13/02

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On October 13, 2002 at 13:09:38, eric guttenberg wrote:

>yeah, it was an obvious blunder even for a class B player like myself
>but...
>
>At the time it happened, Kramnik was down to 16 minutes on his clock for the
>next 8 moves(Fritz had about 45 minutes) This is not time trouble...yet.
>But given Kramnik may have seen himself going into a difficult Q + N
>endgame of a kind generally handled well by computers, he may have
>anticipated a coming time shortage and hurried his move...
>
>a huge blunder, not likely from a superGM, but not impossible..
>
>
>eric
 It's not the first time a grand master has blundered and wont be the last.
 Al



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