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Subject: Re: All the favorites have won except Junior which is losing to SOS

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:05:06 08/21/00

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On August 21, 2000 at 12:35:17, Harald Faber wrote:

>On August 21, 2000 at 12:20:16, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On August 21, 2000 at 12:13:53, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>On August 21, 2000 at 11:20:14, Aaron Tay wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 21, 2000 at 11:18:50, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On August 21, 2000 at 11:05:35, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Will SOS be a big surprise or junior has not made any major improvements, like
>>>>>>the rest of the top programs?.
>>>>>
>>>>>Not really, SOS is a good program, and the SOS version on the Young Talents CD
>>>>>is very good, maybe this is an even more updated version.. it could be even
>>>>>stronger... the postion looks very good for SOS...
>>>>
>>>>Assuming if SOS wins, can anyone predict what the next round pairings will be?
>>>>
>>>>And if a draw..?
>>>
>>>If Junior draws this game it will be a miracle!
>>
>>I saw only the position after move 55  of white and I disagree that drawing will
>>be a miracle.
>>
>>I think that there is a practical chance for a draw by perpetual check in queen
>>endgames and in comp-comp games it is possible also to win if Sos is going to
>>sacrifice pawns to avoid perpetual check and get an unclear KQP vs KQP position.
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>I don't know where all of you see the game, can anyone post the position or PGN?

A pgn of the moves:

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "B47"]
[Annotator "Blass,U"]
[PlyCount "156"]

{16384kB. Pentium} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. g3
a6 7. Bg2 Nf6 8. O-O Be7 9. Re1 Nxd4 10. Qxd4 Bc5 11. Qd1 d6 12. h3 Bd7 13. Bg5
h6 14. Bxf6 gxf6 15. a4 Rg8 16. Qf3 Bd4 17. Qd3 Bxc3 18. bxc3 Ke7 19. Red1 a5
20. Rd2 Qc5 21. h4 Rac8 22. c4 b6 23. c3 Rc7 24. Kh1 Rh8 25. Raa2 Rhc8 26. Kh2
Rg8 27. Bh3 e5 28. Bg2 Rc6 29. Qb1 Be6 30. Rab2 Bxc4 31. Bh3 Rb8 32. Qd1 Qa3
33. h5 Qxc3 34. Bf5 Rg8 35. Bh3 Rg5 36. Bg4 Qa3 37. Rb1 Be6 38. Bxe6 fxe6 39.
Kg2 f5 40. exf5 exf5 41. Rd3 Qc5 42. Rdb3 Qc2 43. Rxb6 f4 44. Rxc6 Qxc6+ 45.
Kh2 fxg3+ 46. fxg3 Rxh5+ 47. Qxh5 Qc2+ 48. Kh3 Qxb1 49. Qh4+ Kd7 50. Qg4+ Kc7
51. Qc4+ Kb6 52. Qd5 Qb4 53. Qa8 Qxa4 54. Qb8+ Kc5 55. Qc7+ Kd5 {-1.83/19 2721}
56. Qf7+ Kd4 57. Qa7+ Kd3 58. Qa6+ Kc2 59. Qe2+ Kc1 60. Qe3+ Kb2 61. Qd2+ Qc2
62. Qxd6 Qf5+ 63. Kh2 Qf2+ 64. Kh3 Qd4 65. Qa6 a4 66. Qe2+ Kc1 67. Qf1+ Kd2 68.
Qg2+ Ke1 69. Qh1+ Ke2 70. Qg2+ Kd1 71. Qf1+ Kc2 72. Qe2+ Kb3 73. Qf3+ Kb4 74.
Qf8+ Kc3 75. Qxh6 e4 76. Qc1+ Kb4 77. Qb1+ Ka5 78. Qe1+ Kb6 *

Uri



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