Author: James Robertson
Date: 20:41:33 04/29/99
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On April 29, 1999 at 23:16:57, Laurence Chen wrote: >On April 29, 1999 at 16:18:44, Rodney Hudlow wrote: > >>After 6 games Fritz 5.32 leads 4.5 - 1.5. Games are at TWIC. >> >>RJH >I am surprised with the strategy which Judith Polgar used against Fritz. A >Kamikaze style, total suicide. It's hard to believe that Judith thought she >could outplay Fritz in open games full of tactical complications !!! Perhaps she >forgot to read Mig's interview with Kasparov where Kasparov gave credit to Fritz >in helping him improve his ability to calculate more accurate and deeply. I'm >always an admirer of Judith Polgar for her attacking chess style, but against >Fritz or any other top 5 chess engines this is a suicide strategy, she should >have changed her style after losing the first game, and definitely after losing >two games in a row, she should have adopted a change in her opening reportoire >and tried to play closed games. That's the problem with Judith, she's a prisoner >of a single style, and she's not very good in closed positions. Unlike Kasparov >who has a universal style. Either she's too brave and wants to prove that she >can have equal footing against Fritz in open, tactical positions, or she does >not mind losing to a chess engine. I just looked at the games; you are absolutely right! It almost seems as if she is a massachist. In the third game, it looked as if she might be learning (with the Caro-Kann), but that feeling soon went out the window as she proceeded to step the game up to a tactical frenzy.... James
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