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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:41:01 10/19/02

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On October 19, 2002 at 11:04:35, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

last analysis for that position by movei:

depth=14 -0.31 e8d6 f3e5 g6f5 a3a4 d8b6 d2c3 d6e4 e5c4 e4c3 c4b6 c3e4 b3c2 f8d8
c2e4 f5e4 e1e4 a7b6
Nodes: 493259252 NPS: 130116
Time: 01:03:10.90

Uri



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