Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:30:03 06/21/05
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On June 21, 2005 at 14:19:44, Robin Smith wrote: >On June 21, 2005 at 14:11:23, Mark Young wrote: > >>On June 21, 2005 at 14:04:37, Ted Summers wrote: >> >>>To sum it up " He played a drawish opening in a tactic way. " Not a good idea >>>when computers are able to hang with the best and proving themself as better >>>than humans in open tactical positions. However I still think GM Adams can pull >>>it together and Win or Draw this match. >>> >>>[D] r2q1rk1/1pp3pp/p2b4/nP1p1p1b/2PPn3/3B1N1P/P1QN1PP1/1RB1R1K1 b - - 0 17 >>> >>>Having reached this position, we seemed to be watching the beginning of the end >>>for Adams in the first game but hopefully not the match. >> >>C4! was a killer positional shot. > >c4 was a good move, but hardly a "killer". > >>It seems clear GM Adams missed this move when he played Na5. > >Perhaps Adams miissed it, but it hardly seems "clear", since Black is still OK >afterwards. His loss happened later. > >-Robin The problem here is that the kingside is already a bit open. One does _not_, as a human, allow the computer to open _both_ sides of the board in the same game. It invites a debacle such as this. Of course, he made a couple of tactical errors around the point where the rook on C8 was hanging, but he was already in the wrong kind of position... All the comps were suggesting the same moves as played by Hydra, so there was no real surprises from the white side, just black making an error here, an error there, before long he fell off the rim of the canyon.
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