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Subject: Re: deep blue - kasparov game 6 new facts

Author: blass uri

Date: 07:36:09 02/01/00

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On February 01, 2000 at 10:21:04, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>[...]
>
>>>I have always been convinced that he played h6 intentionally.  At least one
>>>member of his "team" was quoted as saying "we made a bad _decision_ in the game
>>>in round 6."  "decision" != "mistake".
>>
>>It is possible that he thought that deeper blue was out of book so there is no
>>chance that deeper blue is going to play Nxe6 but it does not change the fact
>>that he was not prepared to the line Nxe6(I believe that this line is not good
>>for white).
>
>One of the first things I learned was not to play a line because you hope that
>your opponent doesn´t see something what you already saw. I am sure that
>Kasparov knows about this, too ;-)
>
>Greetings,
>Steffen.

I did not learn it and I saved a tournament game in the past because I planned
my opponent mistake.

Playing the best move is sometimes a bad idea(at least in bad positions)
because you have no chance to save the game with the best move when you have a
chance to save the game with an inferior move.

Uri



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