Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:40:50 10/19/02
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On October 19, 2002 at 14:36:08, martin fierz wrote: >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 :-) Does it mean that drawing was a good deal for kramnik because in case of winning he could have more problems to get another match? I think that for this reason a sweningen tournament of humans against computers is better. In that case humans may compete for the right to play against computer for a lot of money so they are not going to think that not doing their best is good. Uri
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