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Subject: Re: The naked truth: chess is 100% tactics

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 02:42:14 01/31/03

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On January 31, 2003 at 05:21:32, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>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.

OK. I have to admit. there are some complicated lines after 14...Nxe4 15.Bxh6
Bf5. white should come out on top but this is not an easy position against a
Computer. It was told on Chessbase Server that Deep Junior would have played
14...Kh8 with clear advantage for white in my opinion.

>
>>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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