Author: Robin Smith
Date: 13:13:31 06/21/05
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On June 21, 2005 at 15:30:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. Agreed. But that had already happened _before_ black played Na5. Hydra was forcing the position open on the queenside even before Na5 and there was already no way for Adams to stop it. >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. Adams clearly made a mistake, Rc7, but from a pure chess point of view it is not clear to me that he had made any other mistakes prior to this, and I find people saying things like he "played like a 2300 player" and "an error here, an error there" etc most disrespectful, all the more so since he didn't make the kind of gross blunders other super GM's have made against computers. Of course everyone knows he did not end up in the type of position that is comfortable to play against a computer; but it is easier for a determined player with the white pieces to create an open and messy position than it is for black to keep it closed and positional. -Robin
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