Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 16:23:13 07/17/00
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On July 17, 2000 at 17:43:49, John Merlino wrote: >On July 17, 2000 at 11:01:29, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: > >>[D]2R4Q/3qkp2/3r2p1/3p3p/3P3P/5P2/5KP1/8 w >>"Spassky´s famous loss!He played 1.Qf8+ Kf6 2.Re8 but after >>2...Re6 3.Qh8+ Kf5 4.Qh6 Kf6 White has no more than a draw. >>Chekhover subsequently pointed out what had been missed by >>both players --- 1.g4! to use his pawns to take vital squares >>off the enemy king." Can the chess programs find this move? JAFM >>Source:"Spassky´s 100 Best Games" by Bernard Cafferty,second >>edition 1973,Batsford,section "Find the Winning Continuation!", >>page 246,position 6 ============================================ > >Chessmaster says that Spassky failed with 2.Re8, and that 1.Qf8+ Kf6 is correct. >THEN it plays 2.g4, and the eval is 1.34 for White. It finds this in 10 seconds >on a P3-600, at a depth of 4/8. PV after 1:10, depth 5/9: > >1.Qf8+ Kf6 2.g4 hxg4 3.fxg4 Re6 4.Rc3 Re4 5.Rf3+ Ke6 6.g5 Qe7 7.Qc8+ Kd6 8.Rf6+ >Re6 9.Qc5+ Kd7 10.Qxd5+ Ke8 11.Rxe6 fxe6 Fritz 6 light agrees with the estimation of Chessmaster that Qf8+ is best. Best wishes... Mogens
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