Author: Steffen Jakob
Date: 07:45:55 02/01/00
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On February 01, 2000 at 10:36:09, blass uri wrote: >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. I agree if you have a bad position. I even implemented something in Hossa which I call "lucky punch mode" for situations like that, where I dont care too much about material but king safety. But in the case of the game which we talk about this was not necessary. >Uri Best wishes, Steffen.
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