Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 02:01:20 01/31/03
Kasparov once told that chess is 100% tactics. Well saying that after Rxg7 in game 3 white is better because he has the initiative is not a tactical reasoning and Deep Junior has shown to us that sometimes, supported by pure calculations, one can enter in a position like that on the board after Nh6. This looks like a position that only a "human patzer" would play, and still DJ held it against Kasparov. The lesson is that we can continue to use positional evaluations as a shortcoming to actual calculations, as any GM does in his "pattern-matching" scan of each position on the board. But computers can do better with 100% tactics. What I like of this match is that Kapsarov is playing almost as he does in trounaments, I hope he will not switch stile after this defeat. Actually I think that an anticomputer strategy is still possible, as the games by some minor player show, based on extreme-long term planning, but will work only sometimes, and other times you'll be the victim of your long term planning. bye Franz
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