Deep Fritz(C) – V. Kramnik (GM) [D10]
Kramnik – Deep Fritz Bonn, Germany, 11.27.2006
1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e4 b5 4.a4 c6 5.Nc3 b4 6.Na2 Nf6 7.e5 Nd5 8.Bxc4 e6 9.Nf3 a5 10.Bg5 [10.0–0 Ba6 (10…Be7) ]
10…Qb6 11.Nc1 Ba6 12.Qe2 h6 13.Be3 Bxc4 14.Qxc4 Nd7 Black easily equalized with this opening line. The idea is Black would like to play c5 at some point. White will try to stop that.
15.Nb3 Be7 16.Rc1 0–0 17.0–0 [17.Qxc6 Qxc6 18.Rxc6 N7b6=+ White will have a problem with the a4 pawn.]
17…Rfc8 18.Qe2 c5 Black succeeded in playing c5.
19.Nfd2 Qc6 20.Qh5 Qxa4 21.Nxc5 Nxc5 22.dxc5 Nxe3 23.fxe3 Bxc5 24.Qxf7+ Kh8 Black is more than fine here. Without a light color Bishop, Black does not have to worry much about the Kingside safety. On the other hand, Black has a chance to do something with the Queenside majority.
25.Qf3 Rf8 26.Qe4 Qd7 27.Nb3 Bb6 This is the type of position where Black can slowly squeeze the computer. A perfect position for Kramnik!
28.Rfd1 Qf7 29.Rf1 Qa7 30.Rxf8+ Rxf8 Black is clearly better in this position. He has excellent chances to convert.
31.Nd4 a4?! I do not like this move. I would have preferred keeping the d6 pawn with 31…Qf7 or trade the minor pieces.
32.Nxe6 Bxe3+ 33.Kh1 Bxc1 34.Nxf8 By going into this line, he gave up the real chances to win. It should be a draw now.
34…Qe3 Chessbase posted the following: “Kramnik played the move 34…Qe3 calmly, stood up, picked up his cup and was about to leave the stage to go to his rest room. At least one audio commentator also noticed nothing, while Fritz operator Mathias Feist kept glancing from the board to the screen and back, hardly able to believe that he had input the correct move. Fritz was displaying mate in one, and when Mathias executed it on the board Kramnik briefly grasped his forehead, took a seat to sign the score sheet and left for the press conference, which he dutifully attended.”
35.Qh7# 1-0
KRAMDLER !!!
I still got a chance to be a good player !!!
unKRAdible !!!
All the comments above are mine.
Polin
If only he had made to his rest room *before* making the fatal move…
maybe danailov is doing a tickle me elmo.
He must have been in a hurry to get to the rest room. Oh well to err… is to be human.
Heck I was watching the game, Had my best wooden board and set on my chess table and drinking my bold cup of french coffee and I saw the king going to g8 but then….after Qe3?? my mind enters in desbelief -reality-shock mode and my coffe got cold waiting for me to come out to my senses. I went to grab another cup o’coffee and after a while still was sitting there undrinked…cold…frozen as my soul was, Is this really happening? I asked myself, pinch myself and slapped myself in my face. I’m I still dreaming? I think very much so. Now, when I wake up, ’cause I’m gonna wake up thats for sure, is gonna feel like deja vu by all means.
Polin
I am like a world champion! 😉
Not even Kramnik himself can explain the incident:
http://www.chessbase.de/2006/kramnikdeepfritz06/pressgame2.wmv
If I ever make a blunder, I can say it doesn’t matter because it happens to the best of us. Amazing!
ps. I set up the board and asked my 7 year old son to guess the right move. He spotted the mate in one. My son is better than as Kramnik! Hoorah!!!
Now, all I have to do is dress up like a billion-move per second calculating machine and I’m ready to bust any World Champion.
>>Deep Fritz team is making changes now to 1.e4 2.Bc4 and 3.Qf3 in his next white game 🙂
Ghahaha 🙂
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Oh human self-indulgence!: If the human gains, they say machines are less capable, but if the machine gains, they atribute that to a “blunder” or “error” on part of the human; not to a superiority of the machine.
I think the problem is that Kramnik does not really take this match seriously. He went in to get the 500.000 and probably even underestimated his enemy. Simply not caring too much. Of course he wants to win, sais so, but deep deep down Vladimir, he does not give a damn.
My computer program allows me to play at world champion strength simply through the magic of the “undo” command. It works every time!
I wonder why Kramnik didn’t use it. (Just kidding.)
Proof he cheated during WC 2006.
I cannot believe this!!!! MATE IN 1!!!????!!! missed by a world champion????
unbelievable!
…no, i don’t believe it!
This match is pre-arranged!
it’s all in the script! Now Kramnik will come back and it will become a draw result (3-3)
Darn….i lost all interest in following this match now…. :'(
I was analising the game with Fritz 9.About the move 30,Kramnik was +0.45 winning in all the lines.
We were more than 1000 players following the match at the ICC server and many of us asked if Qe3?? was an ICC mistake.What a cheap WC if he loses in that way.
Well, it’s just ridiculous, scandalous, and mean-spirited to talk of this blunder as “proof” that GM Kramnik can’t play without computer assistance, is not a worthy world champion, and so on. There are people – whom I think are being paranoid, but that’s beside the point for now – who really believe that Kramnik *might* have used computer assistance in Elista. But even THOSE people ought to admit that Kramnik can spot a MATE IN ONE when he is thinking about the position, and doesn’t need computer assistance to avoid MATES IN ONE. I mean, seriously, he’s not rated 400!
All that this incident means is that, no matter what your rating, no matter what your level of skill, if you are a human being and not a machine then there is some non-zero possibility that your brain just won’t do what you normally expect it to do on some move; it will miss the obvious and throw you over the cliff. Anyone who thinks he/she is incapable of this is guilty of the sin of pride. Similarly, we all need to buy car insurance, because each of us is capable of making an unforced error and running over somebody on a clear and sunny day.
C’mon!! give Kramnik a chance. He’s just as human as any of us. This setback it can happen to anybody and I mean anybody without excluding past and future world champions. Nobody is exempt of error. I think he took it with surprise but with composture as the Heavy World Champion he is. I will still vouch for him because is US against SILICON. Humans vs. Machines and we don’t want to loose and if we loose let’s do so with dignity.
Polin.
Theodulf said…
” GM Kramnik can’t play without computer assistance, is not a worthy world champion, and so on.”
I agree.
Obviously, Kramnik was hallucinating.
I guess it happens to all players, not just lesser mortals.
He is probably under lot of pressure. Too many lines to calculate, esp. in an open position.
I think he may have missed it a few moves earlier. What I mean is that he probably planned …Qe3 to come after the series of exchanges of pieces, and he didn’t re-check.
b
It seems to me that Kramnik has succeeded in obtaining superior, though perhaps not winning, positions with both White and Black. That is in itself a remarkable achievement. He is “squeezing” the computer, not the reverse.
I’m also surprised that none of the comments about Kramnik, starting with his match with Topalov, seem to recognize that he suffers from a chronic autoimmune disease, rheumatoid arthritis, for which I assume he takes medications (with their own potential side effects) which may not fully control his symptoms. Therefore, I say, Bravo, Kramnik!
>>There are people – whom I think are being paranoid, but that’s beside the point for now – who really believe that Kramnik *might* have used computer assistance in Elista.
When you see the picture of the UTP-8 cable in Kramnik’s bathroom, you *might* become paranoid too.
>>I’m also surprised that none of the comments about Kramnik, starting with his match with Topalov, seem to recognize that he suffers from a chronic autoimmune disease, rheumatoid arthritis, for which I assume he takes medications (with their own potential side effects) which may not fully control his symptoms. Therefore, I say, Bravo, Kramnik!
Oh, now Kramnik’s disease is invoked to help. Next, a medical certificate from his doctor is expected, to help revoke this game on the basis of ill health.
So, after farce in Russia, now we have for WC one idiot. This match became tragedy for chessbase Fritz dealers and for this cheater “Minister of defence” – great minister, great defence…..
What a mistake! He schould go BEVOR and not AFTER the move to te rest room! His play AFTER the rest room is much better!
Well, what shall do chessbase peoble? of course – to slow the chess playing level! ELO 1700 maybe?
NOW COMPUTERS ARE GETING LUCKY(THE BETTER PLAYER IS ALWAYS LUCKY.) WHAT NEXT !
Do I recognize the backdrop to that photo on this item? Is this the Maroczy Chess Academy?
From the Chicken Little Gallery:
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
From the Topalov Gallery:
Kramnik cheats! Kramnik cheats! See! See!
From the ‘anonymous’ Gallery:
“Even I saw that Mate in one! I’m better! I’m better!”
Jeez, what a bunch of bandwagon lemmings we have here…
“So, after farce in Russia, now we have for WC one idiot. This match became tragedy for chessbase Fritz dealers and for this cheater “Minister of defence” – great minister, great defence…..”
I’m a total patzer and I would clean your clock….you don’t qualify to hold his Toilet Paper for him….
this blog is the place for all folks getting saticfaction from rediculing and defaming kramnik. so to all morons out there: welcome to the funny farm!
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I’ve got to believe that Kramnik is fatigued after his match with Topalov. Also playing against computer programs like Fritz 10 just adds to the fatigue factor because they never let their tactical guard down.
Maybe Kramnik should have postponed the match. One things’s for sure. Computer chess programs seem to have a way of bringing out the worst in human chess players.
Kramnik forgot to use Rybka in the bathroom!