Author: martin fierz
Date: 07:49:25 11/17/03
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On November 17, 2003 at 10:27:29, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 17, 2003 at 09:31:28, martin fierz wrote: > >>On November 17, 2003 at 09:19:18, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On November 17, 2003 at 07:34:51, Albert Silver wrote: >>> >>>>>That's not a place where _I_ would have resigned, for the record... >>>> >>>> >>>>I can't attest to it, as I don't receive it in Brazil, but comments in the ICC >>>>chat said that at the end the ESPN coverage had been cut. Combined with the fact >>>>that I also don't believe GK was going to miss the comp, I'd say that's a pretty >>>>reasonable conspiracy theory... :-) >>>> >>>> Albert >>> >>> >>>I wasn't watching ESPN's coverage. I was online on ICC with Crafty running >>>in channel 211 as usual. The resignation came with crafty at +2, which seems >>>_way_ early, unless there is some sort of agreement that when Fritz goes >>>down -2 it _must_ resign... >> >>you seem to believe that the number the eval spits out has something to do with >>how hard it is to win a position... that isn't true ;-) >> >>cheers >> martin > > >I seem to remember "meat makes mistakes". I might resign at -5 or something, >but not at -2. Remember that Kasparov had good positions in games 1 and 2. >In game two he lost, rather than Fritz "winning". I'd want to have him >demonstrate that he would not do the same thing in game 3. :) meat makes mistakes *much* more frequently when either - meat is in time trouble - the position is complicated both was not the case here. it was the appropriate moment to resign. i guess if you play out a few more moves on your machine, as suggested by the commentators (or basically, exchange a few more pieces by invading on the a-file), crafty will soon say +3 or more for white. cheers martin
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