Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:51:10 03/05/99
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On March 05, 1999 at 16:39:10, Albert Silver wrote: >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! I was unable to watch very much of this... One key point was at the point where Kasparov (black) played Bg7, and Anand played exf7+. Bg7 allowed the exf7+ with a forced perpetual if white chose to go for it. Bg7 wasn't forced and computers and GM's were expecting another move. When he played Bg7, (or Bg6, remember, this was a glancing notice by me) I remember a couple of strong players saying 'wow, that is crushing' but once the computers pointed out it led to a perpetual, things quieted down. My next glance was several moves later and Crafty was at -4.5 roughly. (Kasparov was winning, eg). I'll see if I can make sense of the log file and post something. There was a lot of fishy stuff going on, including one series of 10-15 takebacks, so the log file is necessarily messy as a result... But boy, was this a 'computer position'. Either side _could_ have gotten mated with one wrong step. :) > >> >>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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