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Subject: Re: My thought on Hydra vs Adams Game 1. Yes c4! was a killer shot.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:33:06 06/23/05

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On June 23, 2005 at 01:50:15, Peter Kappler wrote:

>On June 22, 2005 at 23:33:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>>>He's done the same thing again today.  f4 was the move I would play as white,
>>>>_unless_ I was playing a computer.  Before I would play f4, I would have to be
>>>>_certain_ that I can win from that point.  I would not want to leave the
>>>>computer playing on both sides of the board, with a pair of bishops, pair of
>>>>rooks and a queen still on the board.
>
>I think f4 was the only logical plan in that position, against a human or
>computer.
>
>
>>>
>>>Then how come he got a draw today?
>>
>>Fortunate,  to say the least.
>>
>
>Why do you say that?  Was Adams in any trouble today?  It looked to me like he
>had things under control.
>
>-Peter

I saw (watching intermittently) Shredder produce scores of -2.0 and worse,
that's not "under control" very well in my book.  :)




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