Author: martin fierz
Date: 02:38:08 11/18/03
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On November 17, 2003 at 18:08:03, Amir Ban wrote: [snip] >I don't understand this fixation on f5. What's wrong with any other pawn advance >? Black can play h5, g5, f5, and take it from there, any time during the game. >What is white going to do about it ? the point is you want to play f5-f4-fxe3 and invade on the f-file. if you can do this for free, you will have a good position. whether or not to move the other pawns, and which, is a different question. e.g. on f5/g5 white can play g3 and that might be a bit annoying since you are opening lines against your king. another idea is to first push h5 with the intention h4 to stop g3 forever and then shoot your f-pawn forward. in the french winawer, white often first fixes black's pawn structure with h5 for this reason. then you have to take h4 into account of course. i guess it's either h5-h4 first or a direct advance with the f-pawn. in any case you want to make the move first which threatens something directly, so you should not play first Kh8 and then g5 or so - rather first f5 or h5 which force white to take some action on the kingside or suffer the consequences. >I think this game was a low swindle by Kasparov. He played a dubious line based >on preparation that showed Fritz will not punish him for it. He gave Fritz about >20 free tempi (5 moves to capture the pawn, 5 to disentangle, 5 to move his king >and 5 to break). then again, fritz needs about 10 tempi by this count to get it's attack on the kingside going. you can call this a low swindle if you like. but isn't this what human-comp matches are about? you guys have forgotten to put some knowledge into your programs and the GM takes advantage of it - possibly even making the computer look like a complete fool? i would also add that GM sutovsky seemed to like white's pawn-snatching on ICC, while GM yermolinsky didn't like it. so there is no clear GM opinion of whether this was really bad, meaning it's certainly not just a "low swindle". cheers martin
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