Author: Terry Ripple
Date: 06:52:56 10/16/02
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On October 16, 2002 at 04:34:16, Otello Gnaramori wrote:
>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".
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"Too Simple"! Really! Coming from a strong player as myself i would hardly call
Kramnik's sacrifice simple! He needed to calculate 19 ply deep after he made his
sacrifice on move #19.Nxf7!!? If he could have looked the full 19 ply then he
would have seen the reply by black on move 28...Bh4!! was losing for him! Here
is the continuation in which Kramnik calculated and thought was a win for him:
Note:The move 27."Qe6" was his original plan, but then he deviated to the actual
moved played which was 27.Qh4+)
Kramnik had planned and thought that 27.Qe6+ Nf6 28.f4, was winning. What he
missed was 28...Bh4!!, the only move that doesn't lose instantly and in fact, it
wins the game for Black! Although he saw it in time, Kramnik was stunned by this
discovery and was now facing a losing position with just 15 minutes on his
clock. The game below shows now that he had to revert back to the move 27.Qh4+:
The position in which Kramnik played 19.Nxf7!!? The game continued 19...Kxf7
20.Bd5+ Kg6 21.Qg4+ Bg5 22.Be4+ Rxe4 23.Qxe4+ Kh6 24.h4 Bf6 25.Bd2+ g5 26.hxg5+
Bxg5 27.Qh4+ Kg6 28.Qe4+ Kg7 29.Bxg5 Qxg5 30.Rfe1 cxb3 31.Qxd4+ Nf6 32.a5 Qd5
33.Qxd5 Nxd5 34.axb6 axb6 1-0.
Regards,
Terry
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Fritz mopped up quickly after that, gaining a passed b-pawn and swapping the
queens to remove any hope Kramnik may have had of saving the game. Ironic to see
Fritz eager to get the ladies off the board and Kramnik desperate to keep them
on! Fritz ended with a flourish, offering its bishop for a chance to play b2 and
Rc1. Instead, Kramnik resigned for the second game in a row.
Fritz author Frans Morsch with Vladimir Kramnik after the game
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."
Alex Kure, GM Julian Hodgson and GM Daniel King analysing the game
Replay the game with extensive analysis here.
Note that you can click on the notation to follow the moves
19.Nxf7!!? The game continued 19...Kxf7 20.Bd5+ Kg6 21.Qg4+ Bg5 22.Be4+ Rxe4
23.Qxe4+ Kh6 24.h4 Bf6 25.Bd2+ g5 26.hxg5+ Bxg5 27.Qh4+ Kg6 28.Qe4+ Kg7 29.Bxg5
Qxg5 30.Rfe1 cxb3 31.Qxd4+ Nf6 32.a5 Qd5 33.Qxd5 Nxd5 34.axb6 axb6 1-0.
>>
>
>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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