<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">ravi</b> <<a href="mailto:ravi@platosbeard.org">ravi@platosbeard.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Jerry (and others),<br><br>are you following the Kramnik v Deep Fritz chess match? Am I getting it<br>wrong or did Kramnik just throw away game 2 today?<br><br><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/static/chessbase/client3.swf">
http://www.spiegel.de/static/chessbase/client3.swf</a><br><br>I am looking at that Q sitting on E4 with the sort of tension you get<br>when you are playing the game yourself (and are in a one move mate<br>situation) and I could not believe my eyes when Kramnik seemed to ignore
<br>it completely...<br><br> --ravi</blockquote><div><br>Chess blindness! <br><br>Your are correct Ravi, either Kramnik threw the game or he threw it away. </div><br><div>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.
<br><br>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. <br><br>There is a lesson here someplace.
<br><br>Jerry<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">___________________________________<br><a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">
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