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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:04:35 10/19/02

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On October 19, 2002 at 10:47:44, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 19, 2002 at 10:25:31, Terry Ripple wrote:
>
>>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
>>--------------
>>
>>It is well known among strong chess players that you should never voluntarly
>>exchange down pieces when you have an isolated pawn weakness because that pawn
>>will become increasingly weaker with more pieces off the board and thus the pawn
>>will be captured in the endgame!
>>
>>Regards,
>>      Terry
>
>
>It is well known for every intelligent player that there
>are no general rule for the middle game.
>
>I do not see an endgame after trading the rooks at e8.
>
>I think that black has no advantage in the final position
>
>Movei says 0.31/13 for white but movei does not know
>about weak pawns.
>
>Here is the analysis copied from the analysis window:
>depth=13 -0.31 e8d6 f3e5 g6f5 d2b4 a7a5 b4c3 g7g6 g2g4 f5e4 f2f3 e4d5 b3d5 c6d5
>Nodes: 107038541 NPS: 131329
>Time: 00:13:35.04
>
>Uri

Update for movei analysis:

depth=13 -0.24 e8f6 f3e5 g6e4 d2b4 d8c7 e1c1 e4d5 b3c4 f8d8 f2f4 d5c4 b4c4 f6d5
Nodes: 212748633 NPS: 130894
Time: 00:27:05.35


Uri



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