Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 00:49:02 05/10/00
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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 :-( Wow, all this from a blitz game...Nice position btw. Junior 6 did not find it and favored Bg5. Bf8 is an interesting move but perhaps not the absolute best. Jason
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