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Subject: Re: And congratulate Ponomariov for his will power

Author: Chuck

Date: 04:53:47 11/25/05

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On November 24, 2005 at 10:00:11, Graham Laight wrote:

>Against Garry Kasparov, IIRC, Amir offered a highly premature draw offer.
>Scandalously, that draw offer was made by the operators, and not by the program
>itself.
>
>On this occasion, he may possibly have gone on for too long before taking the
>draw - but from a chess computer perspective, this is MASSIVELY better than
>offering a draw too soon - so well done, Amir!
>
>-g

I think Pono is also to be congratulated for his perserverance and "human"
strength.

But even more so, I find it interesting that Junior was not able to crash
through on the King side with Black's Queen stuck on a4 for so long. I get the
feeling that this shows there is still room for the comps to improve in that I
suspect White had enough room to shift the battle to the King side and break
through with advantage. But that did not happen. Possibly this isn't the case
here, I haven't looked at the game seriously.

Cheers,

Chuck



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