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

Author: blass uri

Date: 01:15:33 05/10/00

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On May 10, 2000 at 03:49:02, Jason Williamson 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 :-(
>
>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

I am almost sure that it is the absolute best.

After Bf8 the best for black is Nh5 and white has a big material advantage after
Nd5 Rxc2+.

Chessmaster evaluates the advantage as more than 5 pawns.

Uri



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