Author: scott farrell
Date: 07:39:12 01/20/03
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On January 20, 2003 at 02:59:44, Scott Gasch wrote: <snip> >Well I was in none too good a mood by the end of this one but I'm glad to say >the next seven rounds went better. Maybe that old man's advice about losing the >first (two?) games of a swiss was good. Monsoon got chompster and phark, two >new engines, in the next two rounds. It won both games and played frenzee, >Sune's engine, in the last match of the day. (P.S. frenzee has some wild finger Real good !!! us poor guys down the bottom then had Monsoon to face, game 3 after 2 losses chompster faces Monsoon !!! not good at all. Thanks a heap Monsoon. Scott >notes, have a look at >http://www.chessclub.com/cgi-bin/finger/finger.pl?handle=frenzee) > >I think frenzee lost the game because it aggressively pushed it's king shelter >pawns in an attempt to storm monsoon's king position. Here's a position: > >[D]r1bq1rk1/pp6/2n2p2/2ppPppp/3P4/P1P2NQ1/2P2PPP/R1B1R1K1 b - - 1 14 > >Here monsoon was expecting f4. Crafty/yace prefer either Qc7 or g4. g4 is what >frenzee played which allowed Bh6 and the white counterattack. The next few >moves are all aggressive for white: > >14 ... g4 15. Bh6 Rf7 16. exf6 Qxf6 17. Re8+ Kh7 18. Ng5+ Kxh6 19. Nxf7+ Qxf7 >20. Qd6+ Kh7 21. Rae1 > >Monsoon trades two minors for a rook but ended up with an active attack. >Black's army is still at anchor in the harbor and can't defend the king: > >[D]r1b1R3/pp3q1k/2nQ4/2pp1p1p/3P2p1/P1P5/2P2PPP/4R1K1 b - - 3 21 > >The black queen falls here and though it's a rook and minor vs. monsoon's queen, >the queen easily traps the rook and minor on the back rank and wins the game. > >Monsoon had a really exciting draw against Comet in the second day but I'm tired >of looking over games for tonight... maybe I post part 2 tomorrow. > >Scott
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