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Subject: Re: Brilliant win by Kasparov!!: What about 30. ... Rhe8!?

Author: Jeroen Noomen

Date: 08:46:51 01/21/99

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>Perhaps I should point you to the title of this thread:  "Brilliant win by
>Kasparov!!: What about 30. ... Rhe8!?"
>
>Where exactly do we start talking about Shirov, Topolov, etc?  I simply pointed
>out that many of Kasparov's wins are the result of the human getting 'psyched'
>rather than by his playing a brilliant and irrefutable move.
>
>no fairness issue here at all.  I believe if you look at my comments about
>prior GM games you will _always_ find that I have said that _every_ game I have
>ever gone over carefully has at least one blunder.  So there was no intent to
>be 'unfair'.  However, the 'brilliance' of Rxd4 is yet to be proved...

Dear Robert,

I have to disagree with you. The whole concept of Rxd4 - winning ir not -
will not be found by many players. Kasparov saw it and calculated it
very deeply. It also is very courageous playing this way and I think
Gary is the only one in the world at this moment capable of playing such
games.

To me it was a delight to see this game live, because not many games
are played in this style. Kasparov deserves great credit for this. And if
you find at home that there is a hole in the combination: So what?
This is what chess is about! And didn't we all love Tal? That is the
point! It's not the fact that Rxd4 might not be winning that counts,
but the fact he played it and it became a fantastic game.

Best regards, Jeroen




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