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Subject: Re: You don't Spend 45 minutes pondering a Move to Throw the Game!!

Author: Otello Gnaramori

Date: 13:10:13 10/16/02

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On October 16, 2002 at 15:44:05, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On October 16, 2002 at 11:31:12, alfred palang wrote:
>
>>so as not to make it obvious!
>
>Ponder for 10 seconds and poke your queen in front of a pawn. ;-)
>
>Personally, I doubt very much that Kramnik is not playing his hardest.
>
>I believe what he says.  I also think it was a mistake to "go for art" with the
>potentially unsound sacrifice.  It seems that these guys don't want to play
>anticomputer style at inappropriate times.
>
>I suspect he tried something similar with Fritz on a slower machine and then
>proceeded to pound the stuffings out it it.  But on the hot hardware, a new
>solution was found by the machine.
>
>Just a wild guess.

I agree...An anti-computer classic like the trojan sacrifice is quite useless
against modern and powerful programs as Deep Fritz 8 especially running on
powerful machines where they can see very deep.

w.b.r.
Otello





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