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Subject: Re: Disappointment as Fritz 5,6+Hiarcs fail to find this elegant move! WHY?

Author: John Stanback

Date: 17:05:02 05/09/00

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On May 09, 2000 at 10:34:20, Mark Andreoli wrote:

>
>   I recently played a 5 minute blitz game against International Master Nenad
>Aleksic. see moves below: (I lost as I am black.)
>
>        1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 O-O
>
>        8.Bc4 Nc6 9. Bb3 Bd7 10.g4 Qa5 11.h4 Rfc8 12.h5 Ne5 13.hxg6 hxg6
>
>        14.Bh6 Bh8 15.Qd2 b5 16.O-O-O Nc4 17.Bxc4 Rxc4 18.Nb3 Qc7 19.Bf8!! OK
>
>       "gang" the parties over. All variations are FORCED and win rather quickly
>        for white. The game continued 19. ...  Rxf8 20.Rxh8+ Kxh8 21.Qh6+ Kg8
>
>        22.Rh1 Nh5 22. gxh5 Rxc3 23.hxg6  1-0
>
>         My question is _why_ can't the above mentioned "engines" F5/F6/Hiarcs
>find the move 19. Bf8 (Nenad found it in only 20 seconds). The engines all want
>to play Bg5??
>
>           _which wins too_ in a __long endgame_ however I thought nothing could
>beat these chess computers when it came to tactics.
>       Maybe I overlooked something? Maybe Junior,Rebel,CM 7000 or Chess Tiger
>can find this "simple but elegant tactical shot"! Could anyone help me out by
>checking the position after the 18th move. I would love to be corrected and/or
>enlightened. Thanks for any help in solving this _mystery_!? MJA :-(

Zarkov takes 2:52 on a K6-550:


00:01.0    38784  5>    68  g5 b4 Ne2 Nh5 Nbd4
00:01.1    39442  5    114  Bg5 b4 Bxf6 Bxf6 Nd5 Kg7
00:01.4    63104  5    141  Bg5 Bg7 Bxf6 Bxf6 Nd5 Qc6 Nxf6+ exf6
00:01.4    66204  6>   141  Bg5 Bg7 Bxf6 Bxf6 Nd5 Qc6 Nxf6+ exf6
00:01.8    93184  6    141  Bg5 Bg7 Bxf6 Bxf6 Nd5 Qc6 Nxf6+ exf6
00:02.1   114163  7>   141  Bg5 Bg7 Bxf6 Bxf6 Nd5 Qc6 Nxf6+ exf6
00:03.7   235904  7    166  Bg5 Bg7 Bxf6 exf6 Qxd6 Qxd6 Rxd6 Rc7
00:05.0   345626  8>   166  Bg5 Bg7 Bxf6 exf6 Qxd6 Qxd6 Rxd6 Rc7
00:09.4   717824  8    193  Bg5 Bg7 Bxf6 exf6 Qxd6 Qxd6 Rxd6 Be8 Nd5
00:10.5   812957  9>   193  Bg5 Bg7 Bxf6 exf6 Qxd6 Qxd6 Rxd6 Be8 Nd5
00:21.5  1658880  9    177  Bg5 Bg7 Bxf6 exf6 Qxd6 b4 Qxc7 Rxc7 Nd5 Rb7
02:52.3 12780800  9    193  Bf8 Rxf8 Rxh8+ Kxh8 Qh6+ Kg8 Rh1 Nh5 gxh5 Rxc3
02:53.7 12904562 10>   193  Bf8 Rxf8 Rxh8+ Kxh8 Qh6+ Kg8 Rh1 Nh5 gxh5 Rxc3


John

• Re: Disappointment as Fritz 5,6+Hiarcs fail to find this elegant move! WHY? Dann Corbit 17:08:10 05/09/00
  • Re: Disappointment as Fritz 5,6+Hiarcs fail to find this elegant move! WHY? John Stanback 19:44:13 05/09/00

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