Author: martin fierz
Date: 13:11:32 10/20/02
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On October 20, 2002 at 04:17:08, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On October 19, 2002 at 20:07:17, martin fierz wrote: > >>On October 19, 2002 at 17:43:07, Dave Gomboc wrote: >> >>>On October 19, 2002 at 12:44:23, Uri Blass wrote: >>> >>>>Resigning in a drawn position is something that I do not expect myself to do and >>>>the same for losing a piece by simple tactic in the previous game. >>>> >>>>Uri >>> >>>I think Kramnik was going to go under the wheels even if he didn't blunder his >>>knight. Maybe the position was theoretically drawn, but it's hard for me to >>>imagine how a (mere :-) human could prevent Fritz from steadily advancing its >>>passed pawn. >> >>in the game kramnik blundered a knight fritz had no passed pawn. >> >>> I think that ending would be about as tough for a human as one can >>>find. >>no way. i played it as black against fritz 7 on my admittedly slow laptop and >>drew easily at 2/40. fritz has no idea what to play there... >> >>aloha >> martin >>>Dave > >Am I thinking of the wrong game? There was a game where one side had an extra >b-pawn, the other side has an extra pawn on the kingside that didn't look very >useful. My impression was that the passed pawn would be very hard to stop in a >Q+N ending, particularly since computers are better with Qs and with Ns that >people. :-) > >Dave then you should look at the games again :-) in game 5 kramnik blundered a knight with what must be his biggest mistake in years in a position where he could have played a 4-3 queen endgame. no passed pawns there. in game 6 he resigned a position where there was a relatively clear drawing path, which, if you saw it, would actually be easy against the computer. but it's very hard to see the idea in the first place, so i don't think you can really blame him for that. BTW, the idea is that you sac one of your rooks against N+b-pawn, and reach a dead drawn KRPP-KQP endgame where there is no chance at all to go wrong. since fritz IS dumb, it has no idea that this is a draw and will make no attempt to avoid it. that's why it would have been easy for kramnik. aloha martin
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