Really?

When the world’s top players + engines analyse a tactical position, then the result must be perfect play. Really? The Dortmund game Jakovenko-Kramnik shows a different picture.
Jakovenko’s 19.Kh1 was reputedly prepared,
Kramnik reacted promptly. But his 20…f6 is a clear mistake,
as pointed out by 21-year-old Brazilian GM Alexander Fier. It appears that the
players and seconds had not set up their engines properly or taken into
account previous games, e.g. a correspondence game from 2002 that
escaped everyone’s notice. The game annotated by Fier –

Correspondence Database 2009 in the shop –
CBM 131 in the shop

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