Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 02:21:32 01/31/03
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On January 31, 2003 at 05:01:20, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: >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 white is not much better after Rxg7. 15.Bxh6? was already a mistake. if this move would have made by a 2300 patzer like I am. Understandable In fact this move was played by Garry Kasparov (2847). Very disappointing. Kasparov should have played 14.Bxe4 Kh8 15.Bxh6 gxh6 16.Bxc6 Rb8 17.0-0-0 with big advantage for white. >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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