Author: Terry Presgrove
Date: 08:35:06 02/25/00
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On February 25, 2000 at 00:56:56, Howard Exner wrote:
>On February 24, 2000 at 18:27:18, Terry Presgrove wrote:
>
>>On February 24, 2000 at 17:59:19, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>>
>>>On February 24, 2000 at 17:29:03, Terry Presgrove wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> The position does raise an interesting question as to whether 27. Bg2
>>>> saves the game for white? I spent more than an hour looking at the position
>>>> with Fritz6, Rebel-tiger and LG2000V2 and could not find a win for black.
>>>
>>>26... Re3! 27. 27.Bg2 Rxg3! 28.fxg3? (28.e3! is much stronger, but Black still
>>>has sufficient compensation for the sacrificed material), Kasparov dixit.
>>>
>>>Enrique
>>>
>>>> TP
>>
>> Hi Enrique,
>>
>> The best I could come up with was 26...Re8-e3 27.Bh1–g2 Re3xg3 28.e2-e3 Qc7-e5
>>29.Qc4-f1 Nd5xe3 30.f2xe3 Qe5xe3+ 31.Qf1–f2 Qe3-a3 32.Nd4-b3 Rg3xb3 8.Nc5xb3
>>Qa3xb3 =
>
>Here is what GM Spraggett came up with in a 1993 article. His find was that
>after 6 decades, analysts of this position, including Alekhine and Reti,
>must have missed the move 10. f4 (see below).
>
>1... Re3 2. Bf3 Bxf3 3. exf3 cxb5 4. Nxb5 Qa5 5. Rxd5 Re1+ 6. Rxe1 Qxe1+
>7. Kg2 Ra1 {In his notes Alekhine made the claim here that white "will lose
>immediately" if following this line. Spraggett showed otherwise} 8. Rd8+ Kh7 9.
>Qh4+ Kg6 10. f4 Qf1+ 11. Kf3 Qxb5 12. Qg5+ Kh7
>13. Qf5+ g6 14. Qxf6
>
>Spraggett's recommendation for Black was 7 ... Nxd5 8. Qxd5 Ra1 = and that
>overall 1. ... Re3 was a good move in a difficult position. I guess it proved
>too difficult for Reti to find the best defense.
>
>Probably computers will spot the flaw in 7. ... Ra1 rather quickly.
It appears this line or Spraggett's gives white his best chance at equality.
All of my comps play Bn2 after Re3. Incredibly complicated position/game it
is no wonder Reti failed to find the correct defense.
TP
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