Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 14:51:23 05/10/00
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On May 10, 2000 at 16:53:44, Robin Smith wrote:
>Here is a very strange game from the ongoing 13th US correspondence chess
>championship. My opponent was so embarrased, out of respect for his wishes I am
>posting it without his name. In the final position, my opponent has THREE
>pieces permanently locked behind his pawns. I case you are wondering why a post
>to a computer-chess page; ALL of my opponents moves after leaving book at move 9
>are what Hiarcs7.32 plays at long (overnight) time controls. Here is the final
>position:
>
>[D] rbbk3r/1p1p4/1P1p1p2/p2Pp1p1/P1B2P1p/B7/2P2P1P/3RR1K1 b - -
>
>And here is the game:
>
>[Event "US13F"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "????.??.??"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "Smith, Robin"]
>[Black "NN"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[ECO "C51"]
>[Annotator "Smith"]
>[PlyCount "41"]
>
>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bb6 5. a4 a6 6. Nc3 Nf6 7. Nd5 Nxd5 8.
>exd5 Nd4 9. d6 Qf6 10. O-O Nxf3+ 11. Qxf3 Qxf3 12. gxf3 a5 13. b5 cxd6 14. Bb2
>14... g5 {Black is preventing the opening of lines that would occur if white
>played f4. But whites plan is d4, and if black doesn't open lines with ed,
>then an eventual d5, hemming in the c8 bishop forever.} 15. d4 f6 16. Rfe1 h5
>17. Rad1 {White has such a huge lead in development that computers are (not
>too surprisingly) so hell bent on keeping the position closed that most want
>to play as in the game} 17... h4 18. Ba3 Bc7 19. b6 Bb8 (19... Bxb6 20. Bxd6 {
>is also probably lost, but at least it isn't so obviously ridiculous.}) 20. d5
>20... Kd8 {In this position, where black has 3!! pieces permanently out of the
>action, computers think black is fully equal. In fact Hiarcs, even after a
>long think, thinks black is slightly better here.} 21. f4 1-0
Of course! Black is a pawn up...
Extraordinarily pathetic. It reminds me of a position posted here a few weeks
ago, in which computers think that black has a huge advantage.
[D]6bn/2k2prq/5prp/5pbn/5p1p/1Kp2PpP/2P3P1/8 w - - 0 1
Enrique
>Robin Smith
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