Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:43:37 06/21/05
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On June 21, 2005 at 16:49:28, Robin Smith wrote: >On June 21, 2005 at 16:29:01, Christopher Conkie wrote: > >>My point is that from the 13th move onward up to and including 16.....Na5 he did >>not appear to play like Michael Adams. > >In what way? What should he have played in order to play like Michael Adams; >_specifically_ what should he have done differently? > >>I would have thought that he would have >>known about the game between Anand and Leko. > >1) What makes you think he doesn't know about Anand and Leko? He played the same >moves as Leko until _Hydra_ played differently. It sounds to me like he does >know about Anand-Leko (and that probably is why he played into the position, >since Leko won). > >>It is a very dangerous position for white. I think he (Adams) was spooked a >>little. He went all strange allowing c4. That is what I find weird. > >How could he have prevented c4? If anything Na5 was an attempt to prevent c4, >since it controls that square. Any other move would allow either c4 or other >ways of opening the position. It was going to open up regardless. > >>He is much better than that. > >He made one mistake and his game collapsed. It happens. Other super GM's have >made _gross_ blunders against computers while Adams did not, yet people are >piling on all over him. That is what I find strange. > >-Robin Reminds me of when I said that Ferret missed a chance against Shredder in a 1999 Shredder/Ferret draw by playing Nge7 instead of dxc3. Old CAP data: [D]r1bqk1nr/pppp1ppp/2n5/b7/2BpP3/2P2N2/P4PPP/RNBQ1RK1 b kq - acd 15; ce 191; pv dxc3 Qb3 Qf6 Rd1 Nh6 Bg5 Qg6 Nxc3 O-O Nd5 Re8 Bf4 d6 Bd3; pm dxc3; Of course, dxc3 is a grievous blunder, and Nge7 (the move performed) is the correct move. This move is still difficult for most computer programs to find in a reasonable time frame.
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