Author: Amir Ban
Date: 17:34:16 07/16/00
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On July 16, 2000 at 12:43:59, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>After so many alternatives and the end of the tournament where Junior
>participated with such a good result, the moment is ripe for Amir to post here a
>lot more that what he have seen from him in these days. He has been very silent
>for good reasons I suppose, but now I would ask him to tell us about this
>version of junior, if it is the same or a better one than the current commercial
>one, which the changes are if they exist and any kind of gossip or technical
>detail or humane anecdote he dims worthy of our curiosity. Amir?
>Fernando
Well, briefly, because the telephone costs here in Germany are murder.
Here's the anecdote: Peter Leko "explained" what happened to Huebner, pointing
Junior's Kh1 to a journalist as a "stupid move". The journalist asked: you mean
a move that loses ? a bad move ? Peter said, no, no, I mean a stupid move, a
move that drives a Grandmaster crazy. I think Peter meant: There's Huebner,
German champion and idol, expert in philosophy, playing his methodical and
logical game, and his computer opponent plays a meaningless waiting move.
Huebner gets all upset and wants to go home, he plays Qd7 and offers a draw.
Then realizing he made a bad move, he resigns.
Here are my comments on the Leko game. It was not a perfect game for both sides,
but was a real fight and by far the most entertaining game Junior played here.
[Event "SuperGM"]
[Site "Dortmund GER"]
[Date "2000.07.16"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Leko, P."]
[Black "DEEP JUNIOR 6"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C48"]
[WhiteElo "2743"]
[PlyCount "120"]
[EventDate "2000.07.07"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Nd4 5. Bc4 Bc5 6. d3 c6
{out of book: this is a remarkable move and probably a novelty. I was very glad
to see it played. White will sweat if he takes on e5}
7. Nxd4 Bxd4 8.Qf3 h5
{Threatening to capture the queen by d5 etc., but this is a cheap tactical shot
and positionally bad. The super-GM's in the pressroom said they were insulted
that Junior thinks they would fall for this.}
9. h3 d5 10. exd5 Bxc3+ 11. bxc3 cxd5 12. Bb3 Qc7 13. O-O O-O
{Junior easily sees that taking on c3 is verboten, but his mood drops with every
move and he admits that white has an advantage}
14. Qg3 a5
{Nice, because Ra6 is now effective against many threats}
15. a4 Be6 16. Bh6 Ne8 17. Bd2 f6 18. f4 exf4 19. Qxf4 Nd6
{Junior will not exchange queens in this position}
20. Rae1 Bf7 21. Qd4 Qc6 22. Re7
{Junior expected 22.g4 hxg4 23.Qxg4 Ne8 24.Rf3 and didn't like it (about
-0.50).}
22... Rfe8 23. Rxf7
{Junior sees small white advantage after the exchange sac}
23... Nxf7 24. Bxd5 Qd7 25. Rb1 Rad8 26. c4 Qxa4
{Thought about 10 minutes on this move. It must have been worried about the
coming 28.Bxf7+, but played this anyway}
27. Rxb7 Rd7 28. Rxd7
{White can play 28. Bxf7+ Rxf7 29. Qd5 Qa1+ 30. Kf2 Rf8 31. Bf4 and black looks
bad, although the result is still unclear.
Leko offered here a draw. I chose to continue because after this move Junior's
eval switched sign to positive. After the game Leko said that a GM as black
would be looking for ways to draw, not to win}
Qxd7 29. Bxa5 Re2 30. Bb6 Qe8 31. Bc7 Rxc2
{Junior's eval is now a definite plus. I heard people say that this is still
even or white advantage, but I don't believe it. This is the sort of position
where I trust my program over any other opinion.}
32. c5 Kh8 33. Bg3 Qd8 34. Bf2 Rc1+ 35. Kh2 Qb8+ 36. g3 Nh6 37. Kg2 Rc2 38. Be4
h4 39. Qe3 f5 40. Bd5 hxg3
{Leko played these last moves in time trouble, but at least according to Junior,
didn't make any error}
41. Qxg3 Qb5 42. Qe3 Qb4 43. d4 Qb2 44. c6 Kh7
{Leko repeated his draw offer. In fact he asked if the program still "refuses to
draw".}
45. Qf4 Qa3
{Junior saw that after 45... Qc3 white draws by 46. Be4, and found this
alternative}
46. Be4
{This move seems unnecessary, since 46. Qf3 looks ok. Leko apparently thought
the resulting endgame would be a dead draw, and was proved wrong. Junior
expected 46. Bf3 Qa2 47. Qe3 Nf7 48. d5 Nd6, which looks good for black.}
46... Rxf2+ 47. Kxf2 fxe4 48. c7 Qa8 49. d5 Qa7+ 50. Kg2 Qa2+ 51. Qf2 Qc4 52. d6
Qc6 53. Qf8
{Seems this is the losing move. White had to try 53. Kf1}
53... e3+ 54. Qf3 Qc2+ 55. Kf1 Qc4+ 56. Kg2 Qe6 57. Qc6 Qa2+ 58. Kh1 Nf5 59. Qe4
Qa1+ 60. Kh2 Qb2+
{Leko thought about 15 minutes before resigning}
0-1
Amir
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