Author: blass uri
Date: 02:34:06 06/30/99
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On June 30, 1999 at 03:22:01, Brett Clark wrote: >From the Chessbase website: > >"Fritz saved the day for the computers with a brilliant win against the Ivan >Sokolov. The 2620 GM played a novelty which he had prepared together with Ulf >Andersson and Jan Timman for the latter’s match against Garry Kasparov last >year. Unfortunately Fritz completely refuted the idea with some masterful >tactical strokes which stunned Sokolov and forced him to resign in 22 moves." > >Someone help me out here. I'm a 1300 patzer, so I don't know if this is true or >not. I recall reading some posts that Sokolov just made a bad mistake, and >Fritz really didn't do anything worthy of praise. I'd like to hear some >opinions on the Chessbase spin doctor's version of the win. People meant to the tactical mistake at move 17. I think that Fritz helped sokolov to do the bad mistake. I think that sokolov did a bad mistake when he did not use computer program in his preperation and was not prepared to 13.Bh6. Another computer program and not only Fritz can find 13.Bh6 easily with advantage for white. I am not sure if 13.Bh6 is winning but I read that this was the opinion of a GM. and if this is the case then the mistake of sokolov at move 17 only caused the game to be shorter but did not change the result. Sokolov lost in 22 moves because of a bad mistake in move 17 but I am not sure if he could save the game after move 13 of Fritz. Uri
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