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Subject: Re: A few comments on Arasan in CCT5

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 15:17:35 01/20/03

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On January 20, 2003 at 10:05:52, Jon Dart wrote:

>Arasan built up material advantage but the endgame was drawn. Against Zappa,
>Arasan was down material. Zappa doesn't even have TBs, and it was getting
>substantially less ply depth than Arasan, but it made Arasan struggle through
>the endgame. However, I was pretty sure the endgame was drawish, although the
>Zappa author seemed to think differently until the final exchanges. Zappa is
>impressive and not to be underestimated.

If you have Chessbase, do a search for Kasparov-Kramnik, I think it was last
year at Christmas? This was after their championship match.

Kasparov made some tactical mistakes and they ended up in the same position:
KRPPvKNPPP, all on the same side, same pawns, and everything.  Kramnik performed
his usual torture test, and in the end the game was drawn.  After the game,
Kasparov analyzed it for a few days.  It turned out that at one point, Kramnik
could have won.  My point is just that even Kasparov couldn't defend this ending
correctly in a classical game.  I think its probably drawn with perfect play,
but Black has all the chances and should definitely play for the win, while
White has to walk a razor's edge to survive.  Of course, Zappa has a bit less
positional understanding than Kramnik and made a bunch of idiotic moves that did
not pressure white at all.

anthony



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