Author: Albert Silver
Date: 08:04:42 02/01/00
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On February 01, 2000 at 09:34:08, Jeff Anderson wrote:
>On February 01, 2000 at 08:48:31, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>Now for the average player 93 seconds in opening might mean he just drank
>>a bit of his tea, but Kasparov who plays theorem always within a second,
>>has given this position over a minute of thought.
>
>Kasparov takes his time in the opening quite a bit, even when it is well trodden
>theory. For example against Polgar in the tired old 6.Be3 Ng5 Najdorf variation
>which has been played over and over for the last 10 years, Kasparov took more
>than 10 minutes for the first 10 moves or so, so I think that you start off your
>argument with an assumption which might be innacurate. Kasparov does sometime
>take well over a minute in the opening for even routine moves.
>
>Jeff
True, but when he does take his time it is because he is deliberating on what to
do. The point I think Vincent is trying to make is that it wasn't a spur of the
moment finger-fehler as they would have us believe. He took his time and thought
a bit before playing his move. Personally, I don't believe Kasparov, of all
people, suddenly forgot the theory of the opening. There is no greater opening
theoretician in the world than he, and now he suddenly 'forgot'? Sorry, it may
not have been for the reasons some conspiracy theorists would have us believe
either, but I think he knew _exactly_ what he was doing.
Albert Silver
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