Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 06:54:10 03/31/99
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On March 30, 1999 at 11:55:04, Andy Walker wrote: >On March 27, 1999 at 10:24:53, Sarah Bird wrote: > >[...] >>In all cases the win for white is deep meaning around 18 or 20 moves and Bxh7 is >>a very complicated line whenever played, either at move 20) as the original post >>in rgcc or move 21) as with Bd6 or 22) per Adnans latest post. >>I do find it odd that DB would have allowed the possibility of 20) Bxh7. >>Tactical blunder.....yes I think so. > > Why do you find it odd that DB, in a position that is probably >already strategically lost, plays a move that allows unfathomable >complications? "Blunder" seems, as I have commented in "r.g.c.c", the >wrong word for a move that may not even be a mistake and the consequences >of which are still being debated three years later. What *should* DB have >played at move 19, and what confidence do you -- does anyone! -- have that >Kasparov would not still have won in much the same way as in the actual >game? Word of mouth is that DB thought that the Bxh7 stuff led to a draw. Dave Gomboc
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