Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 12:08:08 11/05/97
Here is the game, a subvariation and some of my impressions in the most
tensioned position...
[Event "15th WMCC"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "1997.11.01"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Virtual Chess 2 / P2-300"]
[Black "Chess System Tal / P2-300"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B92"]
[PlyCount "152"]
[EventDate "1997.10.26"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3
Be7 8. O-O
O-O 9. Be3 Be6 10. Qd2 Nbd7 11. a4 Rc8 12. a5 Qc7 13. Rfd1 Rfd8 14.
Qe1 Qc6 15.
Bf3 h6 16. h3 Bxb3 17. cxb3 Nc5 18. b4 Ne6 19. Be2 Nf4 20. Bxf4 exf4
21. Rd4
Bf8 22. Qd2 Qe8 23. Qxf4 Qe6 24. Qd2 Rc7 25. b5 axb5 26. Bxb5 Rdc8 27.
Qd3 Qe5
28. Bc4 Kh8 29. Bd5 Nh5 30. g3 Nf6 31. Bc4 Qh5 32. Kg2 Qe5 33. Ra4 Qg5
34. Nb5
Rd7 35. f4 Qh5 36. b4 Qg6 37. Nc3 Nh5 38. Nd5 Be7 39. f5 Qg5 40. h4
Qc1 41. b5
Nxg3 42. Nxe7 Rxe7 43. Kxg3 Qg1+ 44. Kf3 Qh1+ 45. Ke3 d5 46. Rxd5 Qe1+
47. Kf3 (47.Kd4 Rce8 48.Kc5 Rxe4 49.Rd4 Rxd4 50.Qxd4 Qe7+ 51.Kb6 Rc8
52.Qf4 Qd8+ 53.Kxb7 Qd7+ 54.Ka6 Ra8+ 55.Kb6 Qa7+ 56.Kc6 Rc8+ 57.Kd5
Rd8+ 58.Kc6 {and perpetual draw})
Qh1+ 48. Ke3 Rce8 49. Rd4 Qxh4 50. Bd5 Rc7 51. Rdc4 Rd7 52. a6 bxa6
53. Rxa6
Qe1+ 54. Kf3 Qh1+ 55. Ke2 Kh7 56. b6 Re5 57. Qf3 Qb1 58. Ra5 Qxb6 59.
Qc3 Ree7
60. f6 gxf6 61. Rc6 Qb1 62. Kf2 Rb7 63. Ra2 Qh1 64. Qxf6 Qh2+ 65. Ke3
Qg3+ 66.
Kd4 Qg1+ 67. Rf2 Qa1+ 68. Kd3 Qxf6 69. Rcxf6 Rb1 70. Rh2 Rd1+ 71. Kc2
Kg7 72.
Rfxh6 Rg1 73. Rh7+ Kf8 74. Rf2 Rc7+ 75. Kd2 Rg7 76. Rh8+ Rg8 1-0
Any comments or better defendings in the Kd4 line ???
I hope chris finds out WHY cstal did not PLAY Qe1+ after 48.Ke3.
So this game looks like a draw ! 41.Nxg3 looks clever for playing on
draw chances!
An amazing game. I was very down after 48.Rce8. On the other side of
the board sat the virtual operator and was grinning. I could have
killed him in this special moment.
Cstal is always good for a bug !
Chris invited me for dinner but I was to depressed to eat anything.
Angrily I shouted at him: No - I am not hungry. I am not thirsty. I am
not anything in the moment. I want to do nothing unless I get my
feeling somehow balanced, or I cannot guaranty for anything.
Not very sportsmanlike. Maybe you can understand when you consider
that CSTal was good in the competition before the 10th round and that
a draw in this round would have been very good.
I think we were ranked 5th after the 9th round. 6.5 from 10 would have
given me SHREDDER as opponent and not the fear-opponent NIMZO/Hydra.
But chris repetition-bug made anything worse. The move Rce8 was
outplayed in the last seconds of the computing time !! Before there
was Qe1+ with draw score ! Before Virtual chess computed on Kf3 with a
draw score (0.00) and no main line. Then Virtual computed a long time
over Kd4 ! I looked into Mr.Baudot's face. I saw what he saw ! Thats
the keypoint of the game, will Virtual find Kd4 now ?? If not now,
than never !
I thought Kd4 would be an easy win for white. In the moment I am not
this sure, but in Paris I thought so.
But suddenly, maybe Virtual had not enough time for another
computation on Kd4, it moved Kf3 and we all know, it would not further
play Kd4 because it had refuted the move once !
So Mr.Baudot looked almost 3 cm smaller after Kf3. I stand up and
could not hold sitting on my chair. But suddenly, the shit Rce8 came.
I could kill Chris - was my first thought. Again a bug !
Hm.
After the game I was totally down with no energy left. Scotty unable
to repair the engine of the enterprise. No warp, no impulse power
left. Drifting enterprise in the space. I have never recovered from
this disaster. Even not in the last round. For me the tournament was
over (for CSTal) in the moment we played Rce8 ??!!
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