Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:51:14 10/16/02
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On October 16, 2002 at 20:35:49, martin fierz wrote: >On October 16, 2002 at 18:03:10, Johan De Bock wrote: > >>Last line of the live analysis of game 6 of Kramnik-DF: >> >>Mig: Btw, if white takes the bishop on a6, then b2 is a winning shot. >> >> >>Isn't that funny :-) > >i'm not sure why that should be funny. i have seen no analysis which proves that >the position after b2 is in fact a draw. besides, it looks completely lost, >which is also the reason why kramnik resigned - it's quite natural to assume >that it is lost. >if it is in fact a draw, it is still very doubtful that kramnik would have been >able to hold the endgame as obviously a lot of precision on the white side is >required (unlike the famous DB-kasparov game where kasparov missed a perpetual >check). > >aloha > martin Why is the DB/Kasparov draw _easier_? It took a _bunch_ of us, working all night, to prove that Re8 led to a draw, and the line was very precise. One wrong move and the draw turned into a loss instantly... It doesn't seem that "easy_ to me... It wasn't so easy for Kasparov either. :) > >>http://www.fritz7.de/bahrain/english/
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