Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 01:41:58 12/02/04
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On December 01, 2004 at 16:27:20, Peter Berger wrote:
>aka round 2 ;)
>
>The complicated and exciting Hertneck variation of the French Winawer is
>certainly very tough to understand for the computers.
>
>Movei out of book at move 15 chose 15. O-O, which is extremely untopical. Only
>15. h4 can be the correct and logical move here, but I guess very few programs
>will choose this move without book.
>
>movei00_8_295 - Junior 8.0.0.2, Computer chess game 2004
>[D]r1b1qrk1/pp4pp/2n1p1p1/3pP1N1/2pP2Q1/P1P1B3/2P2PPP/R3K2R w KQ - 0 1
>
>Junior maybe manouvred a bit carelessly in the opening, 20. ..Qf5 should be ?! .
>
>A nice move by movei was 22. g4:
>
>movei00_8_295 - Junior 8.0.0.2, Computer chess game 2004
>[D]r3r1k1/p2bn1p1/1p2p1pp/3pPq2/2pP1P1Q/P1P1B3/1RPN2PP/5RK1 w - - 0 1
>
>I won't comment on the following manouvres, some of them a bit painful to watch,
>but not decisive at all -let's move on to the critical point:
>
>movei00_8_295 - ba2axf, Computer chess game 2004
>[D]2q2r2/p3nrpk/1p2p1pp/3pP3/b1pP1PPN/P1P1B3/1RP3QP/3R3K w - - 0 1
>
>37. g5 ? - ouch.
>
>The first exchange sac is very typical and probably easy for humans (and
>computers?) 38. ..Rxf4
>
>[D]movei00_8_295 - Junior 8.0.0.2, Computer chess game 2004
>2q2r2/p3nrpk/1p2p1p1/3pP1Pp/b1pP1P1N/P1P1B3/1RP3QP/1R5K b - - 0 1
>
>But the second one is just great! 41. ...Rxh4!
>
>movei00_8_295 - Junior 8.0.0.2, Computer chess game 2004
>[D]5q2/p3n1pk/1p2p1p1/3pP1Pp/b1pP1r1N/P1P3QP/1RP5/1R5K b - - 0 1
>
>The position after black's 46th move - that's the dream of any black Caro-Kann
>player with 3. ...g6 come true :
>
>movei00_8_295 - Junior 8.0.0.2, Computer chess game 2004
>[D]8/p5pk/1p2p1p1/3pPn1p/b1pP1q2/P1P4P/1RP5/1R2Q2K w - - 0 1
>
>Junior took the lead by 2-0 in the match with this great game.
>
>Junior 8.0.0.2 , P223 MMX, 16 MB Hash, 3-4 men tablebases
>Movei , Athlon 64 3200+(2.0GHz), 64 MB Hash
>
>Game in 2 hours, 10 seconds increment/move
>
>[Event "Computer chess game"]
>[Site "XP3200"]
>[Date "2004.12.01"]
>[Round "2"]
>[White "movei00_8_295"]
>[Black "Junior 8.0.0.2"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>[TimeControl "7200+10"]
>
>1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Qg4 O-O 8.
>Bd3 Nbc6 9. Qh5 Ng6 10. Nf3 Qc7 11. Be3 c4 12. Bxg6 fxg6 13. Qg4 Qf7 14.
>Ng5 Qe8 15. O-O h6 16. Nf3 Qf7 17. Rab1 b6 18. Nd2 Bd7 19. f4 Ne7 20. Rb2
>Qf5 21. Qh4 Rfe8 22. g4 Qf8 23. Ra1 Ba4 24. Kh1 Rad8 25. Qg3 Nc6 26. Nf3
>Kh7 27. Qh3 Rd7 28. Nh4 Rf7 29. Rba2 Qe7 30. Rg1 Nd8 31. Bc1 Qd7 32. Qg2
>Nc6 33. Be3 Ne7 34. Rb2 Rd8 35. Rgb1 Rdf8 36. Rd1 Qc8 37. g5 h5 38. Rdb1
>Rxf4 39. Bxf4 Rxf4 40. Qg3 Qf8 41. h3 Rxh4 42. Qxh4 Qf3+ 43. Kh2 Nf5 44.
>Qe1 Qf4+ 45. Kg1 Qxg5+ 46. Kh1 Qf4 47. Kg1 Qf3 48. Kh2 h4 49. Rc1 g5 50.
>Rbb1 Ne3 51. Qd2 Qg3+ 52. Kh1 Qxh3+ 53. Kg1 Qg4+ 54. Kh2 Qg3+ 55. Kh1 h3
>56. Re1 Qf3+ 57. Kg1 Ng4 58. Re2 Qg3+ 59. Kh1 Be8 60. Rf1 Bg6 61. Rf8 Be4+
>62. Rxe4 dxe4 63. Qe2 g6
>{Movei->white resign} 0-1
Nice report.
Also worth pointing out is white's strange use of rooks - doubled on the b-file,
rather than somewhere on the f&g files. It's hard to get an engine to put its
rooks on the right closed files.
Vas
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