Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:39:06 06/21/05
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On June 21, 2005 at 16:13:31, Robin Smith wrote: >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 He was guilty of a different type of blunder. Namely of playing 1. ... e5 against the computer. That was blunder 1. Why enter an open position? Would you consider a baseball pitcher that pitches fast, high and outside to Babe Ruth to be "a professional player that made a small mistake" or "a professional player that made a bad blunder?" :) The usual idea is to play to your opponent's weaknesses, not his strengths...
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