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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