Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 05:43:28 10/20/02
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Worldchamp Kramnik and Frederic Friedel were in a short newsitem on television, on the BBC newsservice yesterday. Kramnik said that he really didn't have any emotions just yet now, and was tired. "It was a tough match. Especially it was a long match". Frederic said that initially they thought they were going to be rooted (is that routed Tina?) with something like 7-1, then Fritz was able to capitalize on a mistake of Vladimir's, next Fritz refuted an opening (What game was that exactly? Not that I doubt Frederic Friedel's word, but I'm afraid I just missed that.) Now suddenly, Friedel said, Kramnik got tired, nervous and lost conviction in his play. It is strange but it seems that emotions tend to play a big role in such chessmatches even or especially because one participant has an emotional IQ of around 30. Shakesperean quoting or not. Kramnik's tiredness is I think convincing enough that he didn't consider this match just as an opportunity to make money. If he had won he would have earned much more. Losing a game in a big money match as a top professional against a chessprogram of all things is something Kramnik wasn't really prepared for and is something much harder to take than a defeat against say Kasparov. Hard to take emotionally especially since the machine couldn't care less. Even if you win, the computer is never beaten, even in one single game it always sees every option for shorttime defence. It is difficult to find your emotional stability again when your opponent shows no human reaction at all after it mechanically wins its game, does not become the least bit overconfident, any human sign that you psychologically could grab hold off and use to do better next game. So the second half of the match showed a relatively shaken Kramnik and Kramnik isn't really the greatest matchplayer to begin with. Which leads us to the conclusion that chess is a physiological game and Fritz should have a big red periodic drugtest button. "No, No please, I can't stand the sight of blood! I gave samples yesterday! I'm just taking medications for the cold. I didn't know there was nandrolon in that! No please those big needles shortcircuit my wires! Ouch!"
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