Author: Mark Young
Date: 08:39:44 10/19/02
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On October 19, 2002 at 10:55:57, Bob Durrett wrote: >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 > >Really, the question is: "Why would Kramnik offer (in effect) a draw in this >position?" > >Bob D. Kramnik was smart to offer a draw, and the Fritz team was dumb to accept it if they were going all out to win. Kramink had nothing in this position with time going down. It is know that many times in this type of position when white active piece play runs out of steam with no advantage. The white QP becames a weakness in the endgame.
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