Author: Andrew Platt
Date: 16:36:25 10/16/04
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On October 16, 2004 at 17:57:40, Daniel Jackson wrote: >http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1958 > >This is the position where everyone knew that Peter Leko was completely lost. >But watching the game on Playchess.com Garry Kasparov suddenly said "Wait a >minute, after 44.Rb7 White has chances to draw." In spite of harsh contradiction >by the heavily armed spectators (equipped with Fritz, Junior and even the >16-processor Hydra) Kasparov stuck to his analysis, which Leko went on to play, >almost move by move. GM Jon Levitt called it a magical draw. 44.Rb7 c4 45.Rxb6 >Re2 46.f4 (the key move Kasparov predicted) Re3+ 47.Kf2 gxf4 48.Rb8 Rb3 49.b6 >Ke4 50.Re8+ Kd3 51.Re2 d5 52.Kf3 d4 53.g5 c3 54.bxc3 dxc3 55.Rg2 Rb2 56.b7 Rxb7 >57.Kxf4 Rb2 58.Rg1 c2 59.Rc1 Rb1 60.Rxc2 Kxc2 61.g6 Kd3 62.Kf5 Rb5+ 63.Kf6 Rb6+ >64.Kf7 Rxg6 65.Kxg6 ½-½. > >Analysis of this very exciting (and nerve-wracking) game will be supplied >tomorrow. I was following along with Tiger 15. What I saw there was that it was predicting similar lines (at least the critical moves) but couldn't see far enough to see that it was a draw. However, if I jumped a few moves into the analysis it started showing draw moves. Having said that, Leko missed some rock solid drawing opportunities that the computers saw that he didn't. This was after the critical moves, though. Andy.
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