Author: John Merlino
Date: 16:21:30 10/23/02
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On October 22, 2002 at 16:24:16, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Bob: >You are putting another example of the very same thing I am saying. It is so >human... you begin disdaining a little bit the opponent, you drop your >habilities a bit, then they strike back, then you try hard again, then it is too >late. >But muy esential point with Rolf was that a GM, as humanm entity after all, is >not made out of only of his best, sheer GM moments, but including this kind of >lesser than best ocasions when he drop something and then it is too late. >My best >Fernando This may be also what happened with GM Larry Christiansen in the Chessmaster match. Larry won the first game embarrassingly easily. He then tried to beat the computer on his own terms (i.e. tactically, rather than positionally or with anti-computer specifics, which is playing right into the computer's hands) in the remaining games, probably because he just felt that, after the first game, there was no WAY he could lose to this patzer program. The result was a 0.5-2.5 loss in the final three games of the match, giving the computer the win. Or, as Josh put it many times in his audio classes, "play the position and not the opponent". jm
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