Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 06:07:53 01/31/03
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On January 31, 2003 at 09:01:14, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 31, 2003 at 08:16:05, Rolf Tueschen 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 >>>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 >> >> >>This is all big nonsense. And I am sure that you would not follow your own guide >>lines if you had to fight for your life. We_know_ for sure that the position was >>bad for Black. > > >How can you be sure about it? > >I am not sure about my knolwedge of which side is better. >I believe that humans often have wrong knolwedge. > >I do not claim that in that case the opinion of humans that white was better is >wrong but we have no data to be sure. > >Uri I rarely agree with Rolf, but this time I do, he's correct, BLACK should have LOST! Kasparov missed 14.Bxe4! and he also played the weaker 15.Rxg7+?....Bxg7 was better! Then he blundered in a drawn position, with 32.Rh5?? costing the game! Terry
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