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Subject: Re: Republica Argentina Chess Masters (Shredder)

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 22:09:27 07/25/05

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On July 25, 2005 at 08:32:32, Rick Hagen wrote:

>On July 25, 2005 at 03:34:13, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On July 24, 2005 at 21:10:22, Rick Hagen wrote:
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>[...]
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>>>The "critical" position seems to be:
>>>
>>>[D]r1bq1rk1/2p1n1bn/1p1p4/pP1Pp1pp/P1B1Pp2/2NQ1P2/1BPN2PP/R3R1K1 w - - 0 21
>>>
>>>It actually looks Shredder plays with a plan here.
>>>Bringing it's King to the Q-side, and counter-attacking on the K-side.
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>>Not to me
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>You deny it_looks_like a plan?
>

This was certainly just a matter of King safety evaluation and not a plan.


>>The critical position is later in the game.
>>It seems to me that black is better after shredder's plan.
>>
>>Here is Shredder's opinion
>[...]
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>Yes, objectively...black is better.
>But.. it is an open position,

Nonsense, this is not an open position at all.


so if Shredder "knew" it was playing a human, it
>would adjust its evaluation ;)



>TBH, the opening (KI) is not an opening computers are good at.
>With white -as in this game- it closes the q-side... no human would do that.
>With black, it would not have the 'concept' of playing the standard breakthrough
>plan with the ...,g4-g3 pawn-sacrifice, and controling the dark-squares. (Bh6,
>Knights pressing at f4,g3, and evt. mating with the queen...)
>A computer would have to calculate this, a human_knows_this.
>
>If it would have played h3 instead of Kf2, it would have been a dead draw after
>21...,h4_or_black would have a (low) risk-free attack. (Since the q-file is
>locked up)
>
>Therefore, Kf2 is a wonderful concept.(against a human anyway, but Shredder
>didn't_know_that... did it?)
>No human white player would have felt comfortable in this position for sure.
>Well... I wouldn't anyway.

[D] r7/2pbqrk1/1p1p1b2/pP1Pp1n1/P3Pn2/4QPp1/1BPN2Pp/2KNRB1R b - - 0 35

I would have felt _very_ comfortable in this position for sure.

The human played very very weak from there on. Otherwise he couldn“t have lost
this game.

Michael

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>RickH
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>>Uri



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