Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 11:22:11 01/23/03
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On January 23, 2003 at 13:58:29, Drexel,Michael wrote: >On January 23, 2003 at 13:28:34, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >>On January 23, 2003 at 13:24:08, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On January 23, 2003 at 13:06:21, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >>> >>>>Today's game at Wijk between Kramnik and Topalov (still playing) is a good >>>>example for the class of the best GM. When Kramnik played 23.Qe4 he went for the >>>>win. He saw that dozens of moves later he could win in the endgame. Now the 53th >>>>moves was played and Kramnik has one Pawn plus. This is Kramnik as we know him >>>>and not how he was after these strange events in Bahrain where he played this >>>>commercial event. >>>> >>>>I would really like to know that our programs were that clever. But it might >>>>take another 30 years until this date. Too late for me. :( >>> >>>30 years?! . Back in the 80s some people predicted that it would take a regular >>>program on a home P.C. around the year 2010 to beat the world Champion. Those >>>people were wrong. Deep Junior beta on a Quad 2.8 could possibly play the exact >>>move, and I don't doubt that even Deep Fritz 7 could too. >> >>Sorry, if that might have been read as if I had said that it was exactly this >>move 23. Qe4, no, it was just the long road to the win who is just there in this >>moment (1:0). And you must agree that no machine today can see that deep into >>the position. We know that often a good move is played for wrong reasons. >> >>Rolf Tueschen >> >> >>> >>>Pichard. >>> >>>>P.S. >>>> >>>>Just follow the game here: >>>>http://corus.connections-it.com/corus/ > >23.Qe4 is nothing special at all. Kramnik obviously had to play this in order to >keep some winning chances. I dont think he saw a forced road to a win at this >moment. There should have been no forced win after 23...Ra5 with the idea >Rd7,Rd4 to get a rook ending with rook behind passed pawn. Topalov probably made >a lot of mistakes. It is not an easy task to draw if you are slightly worse >against Kramnik. The question is always here at least in comparison with computer chess. Nothing special is relative of course. I did not intend to invent a new chess. Beware! :) Kind regards, Rolf Tueschen
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