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Subject: Re: Chess has improve a lot lately, if you compare Kamsky a previous....

Author: Greg Simpson

Date: 00:33:19 01/15/06

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On January 14, 2006 at 19:34:55, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>Chess has improve a lot lately, if you compare Kamsky a previous contender to
>the crown :-)
>
>http://www.chessbase.com/news/2006/corus/games/wijka01.htm

[Event "Corus A"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "2006.01.14"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Topalov, V."]
[Black "Kamsky, G."]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2801"]
[BlackElo "2686"]
[ECO "B01"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[EventDate "2006.01.14"]

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nxd5 4. d4 Bf5 5. Bd3 Bxd3 6. Qxd3 e6 7. O-O
Nc6 8. c4 Nb6 9. Nc3 Be7 10. Bf4 g5 11. Bg3 g4 12. Ne5 Nxd4 13. c5 Bxc5 14.
Rad1 O-O 15. Ne4 Be7 16. Nxg4 c5 17. b4 Nd5 18. bxc5 Nf5 19. Qf3 Rc8 20.
Bd6 Nxd6 21. cxd6 Bh4 22. d7 Rc6 23. Ne5 Rc7 24. Qg4+ Kh8 25. Nd6
1-0

Consider the position after 16...c5:
[D]r2q1rk1/pp2bp1p/1n2p3/2p5/3nN1N1/3Q2B1/PP3PPP/3R1RK1 w - c6 0 17

According to computer analysis, 17. Be5 should have led to a win, but Topalov
missed it.  Kamsky gave him another chance the next move and again Topalov
missed the win.

Unless the programs are missing something it looks like human chess may be
getting worse!



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