Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:05:23 05/09/00
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On May 09, 2000 at 14:02:14, blass uri wrote:
>On May 09, 2000 at 13:52:00, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>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 :-(
>>
>>
>>Post it in FEN and I'll try with the latest Chess Tiger...
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>r5kb/p1qbpp2/3p1npB/1p6/2r1P1P1/1NN2P2/PPPQ4/2KR3R w - - 0 1
>
>solution 19.Bf8
>
>Uri
Chess Tiger 12.5 did not find the solution in 6 minutes. In 355s, it would play
19.e5 with a score of +1.54 (K6-2 400MHz, 16Mb HT)...
Christophe
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