Author: martin fierz
Date: 11:36:08 10/19/02
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On October 19, 2002 at 14:08:59, Terry Ripple wrote: >On October 19, 2002 at 13:46:30, martin fierz 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 >> >>terry, just take a moment to think about it. kramnik played Rxe8. you think it's >>a mistake. what does that tell you? that it's in fact really a mistake or that >>you don't understand the position? >> >>aloha >> martin >---------------- >I'am a certainly strong enough player to understand this position and comments i >heard from other strong International Masters made the same comment! > >Of course it's not a mistake if that's truely what Kramnik wanted to play! But >it's truely an incorrect move in most cases according to certain basic rules of >chess that states that you don't trade down your pieces to bring the game closer >to an endgame when you have a weak vulnerable isolated pawn which comes closer >to being captured in an endgame position with less pieces on the board! that is just not true. there are many instances of IQP endgames which are perfectly ok for the IQP side. the trick is to know which endgames you are allowed to play, and which not... >This then benifits Deep fritz in most scenerios so then why would the Fritz team >not allow it to atleast try to play on a little further unless you know already >that Deep Fritz doesn't have the understanding to make progress and then turn it >into a win! > >Or, was the Fritz team basically giving the world champion "respect"? i read somewhere that fritz was evaluating it's position as -0.34 in the final position. so fritz didnt like it's position and was happy with the draw. and perhaps the DF team, as you say, had the feeling that DF didnt have the type of endgame knowledge to win such an endgame, even if it were good (which it isn't in the final position). personally, i'm not too disappointed with the final outcome: 4-4 - that nearly gives us a guarantee for a rematch :-) aloha martin >Regards, > Terry
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