[lbo-talk] Kramnik vs Deep Fritz

ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Mon Nov 27 14:56:25 PST 2006


At around 27/11/06 4:18 pm, Jerry Monaco wrote:
> On 11/27/06, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.spiegel.de/static/chessbase/client3.swf
>
> It is hard to understand how Kramnik overlooked the mate in 1 after Fritz's
> 34th move. I believe 34... Kg8 could have lead to a draw. White has to
> move the knight - g6 is best - and then 35. Bxb2. The game looks such to me that
> Fritz has to force repetition through check in order to stop the march of
> Kramnik's Q-side pawns.
>

Absolutely! I think Kramnik never realised the danger of 26. Qe4, considering it merely a somewhat ad-hoc save (I am not sure Fritz had h7 on its mind with the move, but nonetheless, Black should have noticed it immediately). I (utter amateur) also think Kramnik got a spare move of sorts with 29. Rf1, enabling him to respond 29... Qa7. But I think that was his undoing... IMHO, it put him in a position of power to attack the pawn and the king, and advance the Queen side pawns, that he didn't notice the added threat to h7 from the Knight. 31. Nd4 set off alarm bells in my head, but I guess Kramnik felt he had tonnes of room to manoeuvre towards the Qe3 that he was looking at into the future. But what do I know ;-).


> Computer's, having no eyes to interfere with the computation of positions,
> do not suffer from chess blindness. But even great chess players can
> disconnect eyes from the brain.
>
> There is a lesson here someplace.

;-) Here's one: human thinking is often trivially and stupendously fallible, and is unlike computation/deduction (without knocking the CTM), but not only should this weakness invoke humility, but also, armed with that humility it could still be our strength.

Whatever ;-),

--ravi



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