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

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 00:42:49 11/23/05

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On November 22, 2005 at 15:41:33, Sherry Windsor wrote:

>On November 22, 2005 at 14:20:41, Sune Larsson wrote:
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>>On November 22, 2005 at 13:58:55, George Tsavdaris wrote:
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>> 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.
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>  I guess yesterday when he beat Fritz he was interested? Only when the humans
>lose they are not interested?


 Sigh - I gave the reasons for my opinion about this.

 "Just trying to block the position - not playing his usual game - blitzering
away the moves."

 And this was Ponomariov in yesterdays game. I call it being uninterested.

 /S



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>>>....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.......
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>>>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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