Author: Frank Schneider
Date: 09:11:59 01/24/03
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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. that's correct (computers can't claim after the game they saw everything in advance). On the other hand endgame databases play perfect moves for no reason :-) Frank >> >>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.
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