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Subject: Re: Kramnik's move #20. Rxe8? Very inaccurate! Why Fritz team accepts draw?

Author: Terry Ripple

Date: 07:31:13 10/19/02

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On October 19, 2002 at 10:11:45, Geo Disher wrote:

>My Fritz 6 on a 2.4ghz machine thought RxE8 was the best move so it may not have
>been the best but it was respectible.  Also the evaluation showed that White was
>still better +.38 so it made since for Fritz team to accept draw with this type
>of eval.
>
>On October 19, 2002 at 10:02:00, Terry Ripple wrote:
>
>>Why on earth would a World Champion make this move Rxe8? which is somewhat an
>>inaccuracybecause of his isolated pawn?
>>
>>Plus why would Fritz accept this draw offer?? Interesting!!
>>
>>Terry
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Another point to add is that computers make mistakes in these type positions! As
an example, look how Deep Fritz played the terrible move Bf8? in the Kramnik vs
Deep Fritz match! Fritz moved this Bishop several times in the opening stages of
this game and Kramnik took advantage of this by winning!

Terry



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