Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 08:46:29 10/14/02
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On October 13, 2002 at 20:15:14, Terry Ripple wrote: kramnik had 15 minutes for like 4 moves or so? That's plenty of time. Anything above 2 minutes is no time pressure. Note that in rapid chess kramnik makes such blunders either. Even with 2 minutes left. Last saturday i made exactly 1 such a blunder in 9 games. I was completely sick and still am about it. The games were 5 0. One game i did some great combinations with 15 seconds left on clock. Just enough to mate my opponent with 5 seconds left on clock for the entire game. 1 game i also really blew to a draw. After a dubious and difficult middlegame i had 94 seconds left on the clock to finish an endgame. KR both and a bunch of pawns. both 5 pawns. I was won there. I felt it. my opponent felt it. However i managed to forfeit. By then i had a queen and a pawn versus a naked king, so it was given a draw. I am still sick of that game. This game against Jelmer Jens decided that the match result there was 3.5-2.5 for utrecht2, so the regional blitz titel we could no longer win. But that game there happened no such blunders of course. 15 minutes is a world of time for a few moves. Hey, i'm just 2300 rated. Kramnik is 2800+. What am i talking about. He wanted to get it to 3-2 to get some more media attention i bet :) >On October 13, 2002 at 11:14:50, Mustafa wrote: > >>I think it was not a game it was a fixed game where df team knew before the game >>that they will win how come a GM that strong can miss the his calculations about >>next 2 moves that will come in move after he will play Queen i think this was >>not a real game it was not a game i think kramnik took money to lose. >-------------- >Blunders happen all the time! Korchnoi blundered to a two move mate and in his >time he was one great player! > >Kramnik finally broke down due to having to defend very tuff positions for the >whole game! There was a Grandmaster interviewed after the game and he said that >the game wasn't definitly a draw like some thought but actually he thought that >Deep Fritz had him beat in the position plus he said that Kramnik really didn't >have any good moves to save him! > >Kramnik was also in time pressure compared to Fritz's clock! > >Terry
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