Author: Christos Gitsis
Date: 15:59:41 06/21/05
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On June 21, 2005 at 18:39:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... I agree, of course, that Adams should have avoided to open the game, but I think this could have been done with ...c6 (after c4), even after having chosen 1...e5.
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