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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