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Subject: Re: good sac (i think)

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 17:30:11 06/19/00

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On June 19, 2000 at 18:52:37, John Stanback wrote:

>On June 19, 2000 at 03:58:01, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>In a game tonight on ICC, Amateur declined to sac for the attack, and played
>>14.Bg3.  But I think it's ok to take the pawn, so I was disappointed to see
>>this.  What do other progs do?
>>
>>[D]1rbq1rk1/2pp1p2/2n2n1p/1p2p1p1/4P2B/1BPP1N2/2P2PPP/R2Q1RK1 w - g6
>>
>>[Event "ICC 15 2"]
>>[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
>>[Date "2000.06.18"]
>>[Round "-"]
>>[White "Amateur"]
>>[Black "Grok"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
>>[WhiteElo "2361"]
>>[BlackElo "2235"]
>>[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Anderssen variation"]
>>[ECO "C77"]
>>[NIC "RL.12"]
>>[Time "23:27:46"]
>>[TimeControl "900+2"]
>>
>>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. Nc3 Bb4 8.
>>a4 Bxc3+ 9. bxc3 Rb8 10. axb5 axb5 11. O-O O-O 12. Bg5 h6 13. Bh4 g5 14. Bg3
>>d6 15. h4 g4 16. Nh2 Kg7 17. Qe2 Kg6 18. Rfb1 Bd7 19. Ra2 Ra8 20. Rba1 Rxa2
>>21. Rxa2 Qb8 22. Qe3 Qb7 23. f3 gxf3 24. Qxf3 Qb8 25. Bf2 Nh5 26. Nf1 Qd8
>>27. Ne3 Ne7 28. Nf5 Nxf5 29. exf5+ Bxf5 30. g4 Ng7 31. gxf5+ Nxf5 32. h5+
>>Kg5 33. Ra7 Rg8 34. Bxf7 Rg7 35. Bg6 Rxg6 36. hxg6 Kxg6 37. Qg4+ Qg5 38.
>>Qxg5+ hxg5 {Black resigns} 1-0
>
>Zarkov picks Nxg5 after less than a second, with the score rising
>to 1.77 pawns after 26 secs (K6-550).  I have some pretty high
>king safety penalties and maybe they work well in this position.
>
>00:01.0    39424  6>   100  Nxg5 hxg5 Bxg5 Kg7 f4 Rb6 f5
>00:01.2    53927  7>   100  Nxg5 hxg5 Bxg5 Kg7 f4 Rb6 f5
>00:01.9   119680  7    119  Nxg5 hxg5 Bxg5 Qe7 Qc1 Re8 f4 exf4 Qxf4 Qc5+ d4
>00:02.3   158960  8>   119  Nxg5 hxg5 Bxg5 Qe7 Qc1 Re8 f4 exf4 Qxf4 Qc5+ d4
>00:03.8   295424  8    142  Nxg5 hxg5 Bxg5 Qe7 Qc1 Kh7 f4 exf4 Qxf4 Qc5+ d4
>00:04.5   354612  9>   142  Nxg5 hxg5 Bxg5 Qe7 Qc1 Kh7 f4 exf4 Qxf4 Qc5+ d4
>00:07.5   662400  9    143  Nxg5 hxg5 Bxg5 Qe7 Qc1 Kh7 f4 Qc5+ d4 Nxd4 cxd4
>00:09.6   862978 10>   143  Nxg5 hxg5 Bxg5 Qe7 Qc1 Kh7 f4 Qc5+ d4 Nxd4 cxd4
>00:26.4  2457344 10    177  Nxg5 hxg5 Bxg5 Qe7 Qd2 Kh8 f4 Rg8 Bxf6+ Qxf6 fxe5
>00:31.4  2941653 11>   177  Nxg5 hxg5 Bxg5 Qe7 Qd2 Kh8 f4 Rg8 Bxf6+ Qxf6 fxe5
>
>
>John

Not bad, John.  You might want to look at why Zarkov likes Qd2 (after Qe7)
rather than f4, although that's probably irrelevant (given your result).

Will




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