Author: Otello Gnaramori
Date: 00:38:22 10/16/02
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On October 15, 2002 at 22:52:24, Telmo Escobar 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 > > Hard to understand this funny declaration. Kramnik has played many beautiful >-and complex- games in his career so far. The sacrifice made in this game >against DF is, by comparison, not so special. I want to say that, from the point >of view of strong chessplayers, the idea of the sacrifice is too simple to be >regarded as "beautiful". > I don't agree with you about this point. The sacrifice made by Kramnik was devised to expose the King, with an exciting game following as we had witnessed yesterday. Unfortunately for Vlady, Fritz was able to defend in a superb way gaining also the edge. I really don't know if with older or weaker programs this kind of "Trojan" attack could have been successful...? Who knows ... But undoubtedly the game seen yesterday win the prize of the more spectacular seen till now, and usually a game involving a brilliant (...and successful) sac is awarded with beauty prize. I posted recently a brief excerpt from the book "Secret of Spectacular Chess" by GM Levitt, if you want take a glance: http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?258745 > My guess is that Kramnik is too much distressed after such a disastrous >experience. Somebody has suggested that, maybe, Kramnik lost confidence after >failing to win 4th game. This makes sense. > hey , we are talking about "Iceman" Kramnik .... :) > Today I think it's quite probable that DF will win the match at last. Kramnik >is an awesome gifted played, but psychology is most important when human players >sit at the board... I don't think DF will win, it is more probable a draw IMHO... optimistically speaking :) w.b.r. Otello
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