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

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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