Author: martin fierz
Date: 13:50:10 10/15/02
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On October 15, 2002 at 14:58:05, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >On October 15, 2002 at 14:32:25, Terry McCracken wrote: > >>After the game the world champion said he had been unable to resist the beauty >>of the piece sacrifice. "It had the potential to be the best game I have ever >>played in my life." As it turned out, Kramnik gets the credit for a spectacular >>game and a wonderful effort, but Fritz gets the point. Kramnik was energized in >>the press conference after such a titanic struggle. "I'm not depressed. When you >>play such a wonderful game you can't be. It could have gone either way. Fritz >>played such great defense. I think I can still win the match." >> >> >>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=555 > >After this lesson by Dr. Fritz, I think that Vlady will try again the >anti-computer path if possible...quite boring but more effective against the >machine. > >w.b.r. >Otello otello, at least kramnik shares your opinion of his first four games! he would rather play a beautiful game and lose (AND possibly lose a few 100'000 $!) than continue his "boring" but efficient style of play. i wonder how kramnik feels now... after 3-1 looking so safe in all games, suddenly everything is open again. i'll definitely try to get up early enough (5AM or so) to see the last 2 games! i also wonder why humans often get carried away trying to win against computers under conditions where they *should* know better (see e.g. vanWely trying to beat rebel in an equal endgame with little time, christiansen saccing a rook, now kramnik with Bf7?!). perhaps those GMs still don't (or don't want to) believe that computers are clearly stronger than they are in tactical positions? see for example kramnik's astonishing comment "computers are bad at tactics". or perhaps they never played *real* training games, with time pressure and everything, to simulate what it's like to be in a confusing (even though it may be fine) position against the machine with little time. aloha martin
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