Author: George Sobala
Date: 13:49:32 10/15/02
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On October 15, 2002 at 12:30:04, Uri Blass wrote: >On October 15, 2002 at 12:08:36, Rob wrote: > >>Well I think that Kramnik did played 17.Ne4 without realising the full extend of >>17. ... exd5 18. Nd6 dxc4. While thinking about Ne4 he probably thought 19. Bd5 >>was winning. But after the machine played 18. ... dxc4 he realised that 19. Bd5 >>Ne5 20. f4 Nd3 leads to huge complications ! >> >>Now he had the choice of playing a tactically rich position (with 19. Bd5) >>against the machine or play for a direct attack of blacks king (with 19. Nxf7). >>Both variations are full of tactical possibilities but Kramnik probably decided >>to speculate on horizen effects typical for machines in the latter positions. > >I see no logical line that programs can lose. >There was no hard move for Fritz to find. > >Uri I agree. Comps fail in tactical positions when the first sac is followed 2 or 3 moves later by a second sac. Here the best line was pretty much forced after Nxf7 and Kramnik should have known that Deep Fritz would not have had problems analysing this.
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