Author: blass uri
Date: 09:15:07 02/01/00
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On February 01, 2000 at 11:04:42, Albert Silver wrote: >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 I read that kasparov forgot his home preperation in 2 games in the past. one was against lautie (sorry for not knowing to spell his name correctly)when he sacrificed a piece and did not remember a move in his notenook and another case was in the olimpiad when he lost something like a rook for a knight because he did not remember the order of moves and had to fight for a draw. kasparov is a human and his memory is not perfect. He can forget. I do not believe that he forgot the theory in this case bevause it was too early in the opening and the only other possibility if it was not a bad decision is that he simply did a mistake because of thinking of his next move. The time per move say nothing because it is possible that kasparov was not near the board in the time that the computer played. We need to hear from people who watched the game to know what happened. Uri
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