Author: Graham Laight
Date: 10:58:52 08/29/00
Firstly, apologies to everyone for dashing off after the last game in the WMCCC.
It enabled me to get an extra day's holiday with my girlfriend, though, which
was well worthwhile!
Here's that last game - Crafty V Fritz:
[Event "WMCCC 2000"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "2000.08.25"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Crafty"]
[Black "Fritz London"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B99"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2000.08.24"]
{409MB, London.ctg. PIII1000} 1. e4 {0} 1... c5 {0} 2. Nf3 {46} 2... d6 {0} 3.
d4 {30} 3... cxd4 {0} 4. Nxd4 {16} 4... Nf6 {0} 5. Nc3 {17} 5... a6 {0} 6. Bg5
{15} 6... e6 {0} 7. f4 {30} 7... Be7 {0} 8. Qf3 {14} 8... Qc7 {0} 9. O-O-O {15}
9... Nbd7 {0} 10. g4 {21} 10... b5 {0} 11. Bxf6 {35} 11... Nxf6 {0} 12. g5 {30}
12... Nd7 {0} 13. f5 {141} 13... Nc5 {0} 14. f6 {166} 14... gxf6 {0} 15. gxf6 {
148} 15... Bf8 {0} 16. a3 {141} 16... h5 {0} 17. Rg1 {159} 17... Bd7 {0} 18.
Kb1 {152} 18... Rb8 {0} 19. b4 {152} 19... h4 {0.41/14 141} 20. bxc5 {150}
20... dxc5 {0.03/13 38} 21. Nde2 {75} 21... b4 {0.22/14 153} 22. axb4 {10}
22... Rxb4+ {0.22/13 135} 23. Ka1 {162} 23... Qxh2 {0.09/14 0} 24. Qd3 {219}
24... Qc7 {-0.06/15 748} 25. Bh3 {8} 25... Bb5 {-0.28/14 353} 26. Nxb5 {160}
26... Rxb5 {0.03/15 0} 27. Nc3 {403} 27... c4 {0.12/16 0} 28. Qd4 {114} 28...
Bc5 {-0.06/15 176} 29. Qxc4 {13} 29... Rb4 {-0.16/14 95} 30. Qxa6 {16} 30...
Bxg1 {-0.28/13 26} 31. Nb5 {126} 31... Qe5+ {-1.16/15 94} 32. c3 {284} 32...
O-O {-1.66/16 254} 33. Rxg1+ {8} 33... Kh8 {-1.66/15 169} 34. Qa3 {225} 34...
Qc5 {-1.97/16 0} 35. cxb4 {112} 35... Qxg1+ {-2.94/15 0} 36. Ka2 {272} 36...
Qh2+ {-3.13/15 0} 37. Ka1 {115} 37... Rg8 {-3.50/15 0} 38. Nc3 {130} 38... Qxh3
{-4.69/15 0} 39. Qc1 {121} 39... Kh7 {-6.66/14 32} 40. e5 {518} 40... Rg2 {
-11.94/17 0} 41. Qb1+ {488} 41... Kg8 {-19.16/16 43} 42. Qc1 {133} 42... Qf3 {
-#37/14 57} 0-1
What Fritz did here is the same as it did to 2 other opponents in London -
speculative sacrifice.
It gave away its knight to expose the black king.
At first, it's eval was good. After a few moves, its eval went negative.
Crafty's eval remained between +1 and +2 for a long time. However, the
positional strengths it had created eventually swung the game back in its
favour.
I think if Chris Whittington had got CS-Tal doing these sacs, he would have been
shouting it from the rooftops!
-g
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