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Subject: Leko-Short (w/ diagram)

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 18:31:35 01/25/00

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On January 25, 2000 at 21:04:07, Daryl Lakes wrote:

>The following position is from todays game at the Corus tournament between Leko
>and Short. After 41.Qe8+ Fritz 6, Junior 6, Rebel 10, Chessmaster 7000 all would
>play 41...Kh7 after 10 minutes think time which loses to 42.Qe4+ and whites
>q-side pawns will queen. Only Hiarcs 7.32 saw that Kh7 loses and it saw it
>rather quickly. After about 1 minute it saw Kh7 loses and after about 7 minutes
>it played Shorts Kh6.
>Even though this is just one position I think it is an important one as it is a
>type that can frequently come up. The programs need to see the danger of outside
>pawn majorities even though it is outside of their 'horizon'
>The above info is based on my PII 450 and 32 meg Hashtables.
>I am curious if Tiger or Nimzo would play correctly in above position.
>
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>[D]4Q3/p1p3p1/6k1/2P4p/1P5q/5Pp1/P7/6K1 b - - id *Morozevic - *Short; bm g6h6;
>
>[Event "?"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "2000.01.25"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "*Morozevic"]
>[Black "*Short"]
>[Result "1/2-1/2"]
>[ICCResult "Game drawn by mutual agreement"]
>[Opening "Scotch game"]
>[ECO "C45"]
>[NIC "SO.05"]
>[Time "06:56:23"]
>[TimeControl "7200+0"]
>
>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Nxc6 Qf6 6. Qd2 bxc6 7. Nc3 d6
>8. Na4 Bb6 9. Bd3 Ne7 10. O-O O-O 11. c3 Qg6 12. Re1 Bh3 13. Bf1 Be6 14. c4
>c5 15. b3 f5 16. e5 dxe5 17. Ba3 Rad8 18. Qc3 Nc6 19. Bxc5 Rfe8 20. Rad1 Rd2
>21. Rc1 Rd3 22. Rcd1 Rxd1 23. Rxd1 f4 24. Re1 Bf5 25. b4 h5 26. f3 Bxc5+ 27.
>Nxc5 Nd4 28. Nb3 Kh7 29. c5 Qg5 30. Nxd4 exd4 31. Qd2 Re3 32. Rxe3 dxe3 33.
>Qd4 Bg6 34. g3 fxg3 35. h4 Qf5 36. Qxe3 Qf6 37. Bd3 Qxh4 38. Bxg6+ Kxg6 39.
>Qe8+ Kh6 40. Qh8+ Kg6 41. Qe8+ Kh6 {Game drawn by mutual agreement} 1/2-1/2



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