Author: Albert Silver
Date: 13:39:10 03/05/99
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On March 05, 1999 at 15:24:14, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On March 05, 1999 at 14:52:37, Charles Unruh wrote: > >> Kasparov as far as i can see is stronger (20-30 points) stronger than he's >>ever been before. A loss by 1 point in a 6 game match doesn't tell who is the >>stronger player, the only thing that can be said about the match is that it >>proved that deep blue was very strong, how strong exactly is still a question. >>Just as kasp won the 2 game he could have won a 7th game so the answer is as i >>said how strong deep blue is still uncertain, ESPECIALLY because it only played >>one person(even though it was kasp) and not enough games. >> The question though is that it seems that just as deep blue was an improvement >>over deep thought it appears Kasparov1999 is stronger than kasparovof just a >>couple of years ago. >> >>Kasp leads over anand by 3 points and over Kramnik by 2 after 9 rounds in >>category 20, 5 wins with black unbelievable!!!!!! He can't be stopped, he can't >>be contained he is da man! Play the Rocky Balboa music!!! > >He is playing very strongly. However, today, the game was most interesting >in that he was winning, then he made a move that led to a draw, then Anand >played a move that should have lost the game, followed by a bad move by Kasparov >that turned the loss into a draw again... etc. Moves, variations, analysis! > >But you are right, it does seem that no one at Linares can even stay on the >board with him. It is almost like he 'doesn't belong' there at all, as he is >giving _everyone_ there a chess lesson when they play him. Yes. Word is that Svidler was completely frustrated in that he still couldn't understand where he had gone wrong later in the post-mortem.
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