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Subject: Re: Why Kramnik lost game 6

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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