Author: Pierre Bourget
Date: 11:32:19 08/29/00
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On August 29, 2000 at 13:58:52, Graham Laight wrote:
>Firstly, apologies to everyone for dashing off after the last game in the WMCCC.
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>It enabled me to get an extra day's holiday with my girlfriend, though, which
>was well worthwhile!
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>Here's that last game - Crafty V Fritz:
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>[Event "WMCCC 2000"]
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>[Site "London"]
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>[Date "2000.08.25"]
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>[Round "9"]
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>[White "Crafty"]
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>[Black "Fritz London"]
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>[Result "0-1"]
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>[ECO "B99"]
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>[PlyCount "84"]
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>[EventDate "2000.08.24"]
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>{409MB, London.ctg. PIII1000} 1. e4 {0} 1... c5 {0} 2. Nf3 {46} 2... d6 {0} 3.
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>d4 {30} 3... cxd4 {0} 4. Nxd4 {16} 4... Nf6 {0} 5. Nc3 {17} 5... a6 {0} 6. Bg5
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>{15} 6... e6 {0} 7. f4 {30} 7... Be7 {0} 8. Qf3 {14} 8... Qc7 {0} 9. O-O-O {15}
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>9... Nbd7 {0} 10. g4 {21} 10... b5 {0} 11. Bxf6 {35} 11... Nxf6 {0} 12. g5 {30}
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>12... Nd7 {0} 13. f5 {141} 13... Nc5 {0} 14. f6 {166} 14... gxf6 {0} 15. gxf6 {
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>148} 15... Bf8 {0} 16. a3 {141} 16... h5 {0} 17. Rg1 {159} 17... Bd7 {0} 18.
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>Kb1 {152} 18... Rb8 {0} 19. b4 {152} 19... h4 {0.41/14 141} 20. bxc5 {150}
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>20... dxc5 {0.03/13 38} 21. Nde2 {75} 21... b4 {0.22/14 153} 22. axb4 {10}
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>22... Rxb4+ {0.22/13 135} 23. Ka1 {162} 23... Qxh2 {0.09/14 0} 24. Qd3 {219}
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>24... Qc7 {-0.06/15 748} 25. Bh3 {8} 25... Bb5 {-0.28/14 353} 26. Nxb5 {160}
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>26... Rxb5 {0.03/15 0} 27. Nc3 {403} 27... c4 {0.12/16 0} 28. Qd4 {114} 28...
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>Bc5 {-0.06/15 176} 29. Qxc4 {13} 29... Rb4 {-0.16/14 95} 30. Qxa6 {16} 30...
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>Bxg1 {-0.28/13 26} 31. Nb5 {126} 31... Qe5+ {-1.16/15 94} 32. c3 {284} 32...
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>O-O {-1.66/16 254} 33. Rxg1+ {8} 33... Kh8 {-1.66/15 169} 34. Qa3 {225} 34...
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>Qc5 {-1.97/16 0} 35. cxb4 {112} 35... Qxg1+ {-2.94/15 0} 36. Ka2 {272} 36...
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>Qh2+ {-3.13/15 0} 37. Ka1 {115} 37... Rg8 {-3.50/15 0} 38. Nc3 {130} 38... Qxh3
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>{-4.69/15 0} 39. Qc1 {121} 39... Kh7 {-6.66/14 32} 40. e5 {518} 40... Rg2 {
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>-11.94/17 0} 41. Qb1+ {488} 41... Kg8 {-19.16/16 43} 42. Qc1 {133} 42... Qf3 {
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>-#37/14 57} 0-1
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>What Fritz did here is the same as it did to 2 other opponents in London -
>speculative sacrifice.
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>It gave away its knight to expose the black king.
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>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.
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>I think if Chris Whittington had got CS-Tal doing these sacs, he would have been
>shouting it from the rooftops!
>
>-g
This is an incredible game for Fritz , i don't remember to have ever seen a game
when 0-0 in made into a check when a piece is taken (move 32 by black).It was
the only move to escape the mate threat.
Pierre
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