Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:54:37 05/12/03
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On May 12, 2003 at 15:09:08, Jorge Pichard wrote: >In the Second game Kasparov was very upset at the board soon after playing >(diagram) 25...Qa1+. He realized a few moves later that White could force him to >take a perpetual check draw with a surprising queen sacrifice. In the press >conference he said that he thought he had a forced win with the queen check, but >that in hindsight 25...f4 would have been stronger. > > >Junior co-programmer Amir Ban quotes someone from Kasparov's team as saying >afterwards that 25...f4 26.h3! was also a draw. I do not believe it. I did not see a proof that 26.h3 is a draw and I see no reason to trust somebody from kasparov's team that I even do not know his name. Uri
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