Author: Martin Slowik
Date: 00:57:38 04/13/05
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On April 13, 2005 at 03:01:22, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >>Oh come on. Grandmaster draws happen all the time. Lot of grandmasters don't >>play aggressively with the black pieces, and just try to equalize. That's >>because they know they're starting with a disadvantage with the black pieces. >>The guy who drew this game definitely started with a disadvantage. Makes good >>chess sense. he got a draw. Now people are talking about it. Or, he could have >>scored a big ZERO. I'll take 1/2 over 0 anyday. > >I think you are missing my point here, GM´s don´t prepare against opponents for >the sole purpose of drawing their games aginst them. Hug was an IM but if he was an GM (there are many in the 2400 range) it wouldn't change much. :) (He played 7.Nd5 instead of ie the more popular 7.f4 probably just to throw Garri out of the book. Of course anti computer strategies wouldn't work here, so he had to find something else...). [Event "SUI-Kasparov"] [Site "SUI"] [Date "1987.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Hug, Werner"] [Black "Kasparov, Garry"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "B25"] [WhiteElo "2430"] [BlackElo "2735"] [PlyCount "69"] [EventDate "1987.??.??"] [Source "ChessBase"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. d3 d6 6. Nh3 h5 7. Nd5 Bg4 8. f3 Bxh3 9. Bxh3 e6 10. Ne3 h4 11. f4 hxg3 12. hxg3 d5 13. exd5 exd5 14. Bg2 Rxh1+ 15. Bxh1 Nf6 16. Bd2 Qe7 17. Kf2 O-O-O 18. Qf1 c4 19. Bf3 cxd3 20. cxd3 Ne4+ 21. dxe4 dxe4 22. Bg4+ f5 23. Rd1 fxg4 24. Bc3 Bxc3 25. bxc3 Rh8 26. Qc4 Kb8 27. Qd5 Ka8 28. Qd6 Qh7 29. Qe6 Ne7 30. Qxe4 Nf5 31. Nxf5 gxf5 32. Qd5 a6 33. Re1 Rc8 34. Re6 Qh2+ 35. Kf1 1/2-1/2 > >Most 2100+ players can draw a computer pretty easily if that is their only >objective, so i am not impressed.
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