Author: Otello Gnaramori
Date: 01:34:16 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". > Let me also quote chessbase: "It was brilliant, and perhaps a little foolhardy at the same time. This is how Grandmasters often lose to computers. They get great attacking positions that just -too complex- to play against a program like Fritz that is seeing three million positions per second and can defend perfectly. You only need to miss one key move to go down in flames, and today that's just what happened to the world champion."
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