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Subject: Republica Argentina Chess Masters (Shredder)

Author: Rick Hagen

Date: 18:10:22 07/24/05


Despite it's weird Blunder at this tournaments 3rd round (giving away a piece),
it leads the tourney with 7.5/9 (It has won the tournament with one round to
spare).

Playing through its games, I came upon this one:

[Event "Mercosur Cup"]
[Site "Vicente Lopez ARG"]
[Date "2005.07.17"]
[Round "4"]
[White "SHREDDER"]
[Black "Garcia Palermo, C."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B06"]
[BlackElo "2467"]
[PlyCount "129"]
[EventDate "2005.07.14"]

1. d4 d6 2. e4 g6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. Nc3 a6 5. a4 b6 6. Bc4 e6 7. O-O Ne7 8. Re1 Bb7
9. d5 e5 10. Qd2 h6 11. Qd3 Nd7 12. Nh4 O-O 13. b4 Bc8 14. Qe3 Nf6 15. Nf3 Nh7
16. Nd2 f5 17. f3 f4 18. Qd3 g5 19. Bb2 h5 20. b5 a5 21. Kf2 g4 22. Rh1 Ng6 23.
Raf1 Bf6 24. Ke1 Kg7 25. Kd1 Ng5 26. Kc1 Qe7 27. Nd1 Bd7 28. Rhg1 Rf7 29. Nf2
g3 30. hxg3 fxg3 31. Nd1 Nf4 32. Qe3 h4 33. Re1 h3 34. Bf1 h2 35. Rh1 Nh7 36.
Qc3 Rc8 37. Ne3 Bg5 38. Bc4 Ng6 39. Ndf1 Bf4 40. Kb1 Nh4 41. Bc1 Qg5 42. Rd1
Rcf8 43. Be2 Bc8 44. Ng4 Bxc1 45. Rxc1 Nxf3 46. gxf3 g2 47. Nfxh2 gxh1=Q 48.
Rxh1 Rh8 49. f4 Qxf4 50. Rf1 Qg5 51. Rxf7+ Kxf7 52. Qxc7+ Qe7 53. Nh6+ Kf6 54.
N2g4+ Bxg4 55. Nxg4+ Kf7 56. Nh6+ Kf6 57. Qc6 Rd8 58. Nf5 Qd7 59. Qxb6 Ng5 60.
Bd3 Nh3 61. c4 Nf4 62. c5 Nxd3 63. c6 Qe8 64. c7 Ra8 65. Qxd6+ 1-0

The "critical" position seems to be:

[D]r1bq1rk1/2p1n1bn/1p1p4/pP1Pp1pp/P1B1Pp2/2NQ1P2/1BPN2PP/R3R1K1 w - - 0 21

It actually looks Shredder plays with a plan here.
Bringing it's King to the Q-side, and counter-attacking on the K-side.

I tried only few engines in this pos. but most seem to opt for 21.h3, after
black (If he desired to do so...) could close the position with 21...,h4
Or -more ambitious- play Kh8 and put a rook on the g-file, to push for g4.

But atleast I can confirm Shredder goes for Kf2 in this position, unlike that
mentioned game where it gave a piece away.


In one round, a player actually tried to play anti-chess, and came close to
succeed... but not quite ;)

[Event "Mercosur Cup"]
[Site "Vicente Lopez ARG"]
[Date "2005.07.18"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Alonso, S."]
[Black "SHREDDER"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "2457"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[EventDate "2005.07.14"]

1. e3 Nf6 2. d4 e6 3. Bd3 c5 4. c3 d5 5. Nd2 Nbd7 6. f4 Bd6 7. Ngf3 cxd4 8.
cxd4 Nb8 9. O-O O-O 10. Ne5 b6 11. Qe2 a5 12. Nb1 Ba6 13. Bxa6 Nxa6 14. Nc3 Bb4
15. Nb5 Nc7 16. a3 Nxb5 17. Qxb5 Bd6 18. Nf3 Qe8 19. Qxe8 Rfxe8 20. Bd2 Rac8
21. Rfc1 a4 22. Rxc8 Rxc8 23. Rc1 Rxc1+ 24. Bxc1 b5 25. Bd2 Ne4 26. Ba5 h5 27.
h3 Kh7 28. Kf1 Kh6 29. g4 hxg4 30. hxg4 g5 31. fxg5+ Nxg5 32. Kg2 Ne4 33. Nd2
Kg5 34. Kf3 b4 35. Nb1 b3 36. Bd8+ f6 37. Ba5 Kh4 38. Be1+ Kh3 39. Nc3 Bg3 40.
Bxg3 Nxc3 41. Be5 Nd1 42. Bxf6 Nxb2 43. g5 Nc4 0-1


RickH





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