Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 02:53:22 05/22/00
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On May 21, 2000 at 22:48:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 21, 2000 at 21:09:29, Michael Neish wrote: > >> >>Hi, >> >>No they're not playing again (for the moment), although we probably all wish >>they would. >> >>I'd just like to ask something about the game. We all know how decisively Van >>Wely took Fritz apart in the recent Dutch Championships. There was a lot of >>talk about computers failing miserably at this sort of position. >> >>I may have missed something, but I can't remember reading anything about how >>Fritz should have defended the position, i.e., what a strong player would have >>done. >> >>If programmers are to eliminate this yawning hole in their evaluations, they >>need to know what to patch up or rewrite. Unfortunately for us weak players >>it's not only a programming problem but lack of understanding of the game that >>lets us down. >> >>So if there are any half-way decent players out there who are interested in the >>game, could you please let us know what a GM (or strong player) would have done >>in Fritz's place? (I think we need something more detailed than "stop White's >>Pawn storm".) >> >>Game follows below ...... >> >>Cheers, >> >>Mike. >> > > >There are a couple of obvious things. > >1. Bg4 is silly. After f3, it has to retreat. > >2. after f4, black needs to play ef, rather than allowing the pawn to be >pushed to f5. After f5, white has lots of space on the kingside, and the pawn >roller is hard to stop. Black, meanwhile, has a locked center to play with and >has a hard time defending on the kingside with so little space there. > >f5 is the kind of move we would see on ICC all the time vs GM/IM players.. >It is something that you have to avoid, or get rolled into a small ball most >every time. > > > > >>---------- >> >>[Event "Dutch championship"] >>[Site "?"] >>[Date "2000.??.??"] >>[Round "?"] >>[White "Van Wely"] >>[Black "Fritz SSS"] >>[Result "1-0"] >>[ECO "A25"] >>[WhiteElo "2646"] >>[PlyCount "49"] >> >>1. c4 e5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 Nc6 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. a3 Bxc3 6. bxc3 O-O 7. e4 a6 8. a4 >>d6 9. d3 Bg4 10. f3 Bd7 11. Ne2 Qc8 12. h3 b6 13. f4 Be6 14. f5 Bd7 15. g4 Ne8 >>16. Ng3 Qd8 17. g5 Bc8 18. h4 f6 19. Qh5 Na5 20. Ra3 Qe7 21. Nf1 Nc6 22. Ne3 >>Qd7 23. g6 h6 24. Ng4 Ra7 25. Rg1 1-0 Alex Kure is probably right, however a _later_ better continuation for Fritz, instead of the useless 9...Bg4, could have been 9...Ne8, planning Black's f5, eventually opening up the f-file, etc. *** Djordje
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