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Subject: Re: Hydra crushed Ponomariov, Fritz is better and Junior.....

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 11:20:41 11/22/05

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On November 22, 2005 at 13:58:55, George Tsavdaris wrote:

 Real sad to see Ponomariov this uninterested of the game. Just trying to block
the position - not playing his usual game - blitzering away the moves. But I
guess the paychecks already found their pockets. The rest is just show off or
propaganda.

/S


>
>....has a pawn more at the endgame.
>
> What i see from these games and from recent games also, by looking not only the
>results, is that the todays hardware and software is able to even outplay in
>most cases the 2650-2720 GMs. And i guess that the battle with 2720+ GM's would
>not be too much harder and results if not similar, would indicate an even
>situation between comps and GMs.
>  But the really suprising fact from Hydra-Adams and Bilbao games is that the
>initiative that old times all GMs had when playing against the comps, is now at
>the comps side most times. Are the GMs afraid to play risky, does the comps have
>become so much better, the fact is these aforementioned GMs have been outplayed
>with a bad way.......
>
>[Event "Match Mundial Personas vs Computadoras"]
>[Site "Bilbao ESP"]
>[Date "2005.11.22"]
>[Round "3"]
>[White "COMP Hydra, Syclla"]
>[Black "Ponomariov, Ruslan"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[ECO "C05"]
>[Annotator "Xmas"]
>[PlyCount "57"]
>[EventDate "2005.11.20"]
>
>1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. Bd3 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Ne2 a5 8. O-O c4
>9. Bc2 b5 10. b3 Nb6 11. bxc4 bxc4 12. Rb1 Kd7 13. Nf4 Kc7 14. Qf3 Rb8 15. Nh5
>Qe7 16. Re1 Ba6 17. Qg3 g6 18. Nf6 Kb7 19. Nde4 Ka7 20. Nd6 Nc8 21. Ba3 Rxb1
>22. Rxb1 Nxd6 23. Bc5+ Ka8 24. Ba4 Bb7 25. exd6 Qxf6 26. Bxc6 Bxc6 27. d7 Bxc5
>28. Qc7 e5 29. dxc5 1-0
>
>Both have white being better.......
>
>Junior-Khalifman
>[D]5bk1/3N1p2/6pp/8/2P5/4B1nP/6P1/6K1 w - - 0 40
>
>Fritz-Kasimjanov
>[D]6r1/Pp1k4/2pPp1n1/1p3p2/8/6P1/2R4P/5R1K b - - 0 38



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