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

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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