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Subject: Re: Bob, do You finally accept, that PCs are playing at GM level?

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 05:44:44 06/23/99

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On June 22, 1999 at 03:05:32, blass uri wrote:

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>>>I think that computers help humans to do tactical blunders.
>>>I think that sokolov was surprised by good moves of Fritz in the opening.
>>>
>>>I think that Fritz had advantage and a good chance to win even without the
>>>blunder of sokolov.
>>
>>
>>
>>Then I don't understand...  as when DB ripped Kasparov in game 6, Kasparov
>>played poorly and the computer was lucky.  Here the GM was OK and Fritz played
>>great?  While still in book?  The two circumstances seem similar. In _both_
>>games the human blundered in the opening and lost quickly...
>
>In the game of kasparov the human blundered in a known position from theory.
>In  this case I understand that Fritz played a novelty Bh6.
>
>In the game of kasparov computers evaluate the position after Nxe6 of deeper
>blue as better for black when in this case I found that the evaluation of
>computers show advantage for white.
>
>I think that the kind of position that Fritz came out of the opening is better
>for computers and probably Fritz could practically win another GM from the
>position after Bh6
>
>I think that the practical mistake of the sokolov was that it chose a bad
>opening.
>Instead of playing Nxe4 going to open spanish it was better to play for close
>positions with Be7.
>
>Uri

According to GM Einar Gausel, its a popular move against computers as its
usually  leads to endgame positions quite early, after a lot of excahnges in the
opening.

Torstein Hall



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