Author: GuyHaworth
Date: 00:49:19 10/17/02
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As Robert Flesher says, if White can axe the P+N for a Rook, and establish the remaining R on the fourth rank, it has its fortress set up - Black cannot progress. That seems to rule out 40...Qf5. I wondered about 40...Qb2, protecting both P and N longer. The organisers have, somewhat unsatisfactorily, not published the rules or even (since I do not need to know where the Kramnik-watching cameras are) a sufficient subset of the rules. However, suppose the contest-specific rule, "Kramnik sells the draw" is in place. Did this come from checkers, where it is acknowledged as unsatisfactory? This would obviate the need for the players to sit through 50 needless moves ... maybe 6 hours' play (or 3 hrs if Kramnik played instantly). You could argue that this was unfairly tiring Kramnik, and subtracted from the 'reality' of the contest as two humans would agree a draw. However, having the extra rule in place - and the arbiter deciding the result of the game is unreal also. I prefer the first 'unreality' because I don't think it would happen. The Fritz team want to preserve the reality of the contest, and know enough about chess (and what DF is calculating) to see the draw. g [ The rule banning 6-man EGTs is also 'unreal', but that's another topic. ]
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