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Subject: Re: Did Fritz Resign Prematurely? in kaspy vs fritz?

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 17:10:32 11/17/03

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On November 17, 2003 at 19:30:49, steven blincoe wrote:

>>>i only showed it down 2.00
>>2 points in that position against Kasparov was more than enough to resign with,
>>especially considering the total lack of counterplay that Fritz had...
>
>and yet..Kaspy had blundered against F8 in just the game before..
>i think if this were a game against two human GM'S for the world
>championship..the player would play on a bit more, if for no other reason then
>to perhaps annoy Kaspy and possibly provoke another blunder
>psychological factors play a great role in human matches,so why not here?
>
>i am thinking that Kaspy might have pressured the F8 team into resigning a bit
>prematurely
>this could have been accomplished by annoyed facial guestures or grunts of
>dissaproval from the great one if it appeared the F8 team was condsidering to
>play on
>
>i am sure Kaspy expected the F8 team to resign once the A6 pawn fell,because he
>resigned soon after he blundered the E4 pawn in game 3.
>
>Steve

That's a bit one-sided. You really don't like Kasparov do you?;-)

Terry



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