Author: Sean Empey
Date: 11:45:03 07/30/04
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On July 30, 2004 at 10:55:07, Albert Silver wrote: >The following position arose in a famous game between Taimanov and Karpov in >1973. Karpov sacrificed a pawn to prevent white from pushing c4, and obtain >excellent play against the hanging pawns using the two files. I expect that most >of the top engines should find this move, but the amateurs should find it much >harder. How does your engine do? > > Albert > >[D]2q2rk1/p1rn1ppp/1p2pn2/8/Q2P4/2P2N2/P2B1PPP/2RR2K1 b - - 0 17 > >17...Rc4! 18.Qxa7 Qc6 19.Qa3 Rc8 > >Here is the full game: > >[Event "Moscow-3teams"] >[Site ""] >[Date "1973"] >[Round "2"] >[White "Taimanov Mark E"] >[Black "Karpov Anatoly"] >[Result "0-1"] >[Eco "E55"] >[Annotator ""] >[Source "MCL"] > >1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 c5 5.Bd3 O-O 6.Nf3 d5 7.O-O dxc4 >8.Bxc4 cxd4 9.exd4 b6 10.Qe2 Bb7 11.Rd1 Nbd7 12.Bd2 Rc8 13.Ba6 >Bxa6 14.Qxa6 Bxc3 15.bxc3 Rc7 16.Rac1 Qc8 17.Qa4 Rc4 18.Qxa7 >Qc6 19.Qa3 Rc8 20.h3 h6 21.Rb1 Ra4 22.Qb3 Nd5 23.Rdc1 Rc4 24.Rb2 >f6 25.Re1 Kf7 26.Qd1 Nf8 27.Rb3 Ng6 28.Qb1 Ra8 29.Re4 Rca4 30.Rb2 >Nf8 31.Qd3 Rc4 32.Re1 Ra3 33.Qb1 Ng6 34.Rc1 Nxc3 35.Qd3 Ne2+ >36.Qxe2 Rxc1+ 37.Bxc1 Qxc1+ 38.Kh2 Rxf3 39.gxf3 Nh4 0-1 > >In the last position, white lost on time BTW. Storm found it in less than a second.
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