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Subject: A Test Position - Sacrifice for an Attack

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 12:01:07 10/23/00


[Event "?"]
[Site "USA"]
[Date "1989.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Deep Thought"]
[Black "Valvo Michael J"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C31"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 d5 3. exd5 c6 4. Nc3 exf4 5. Nf3 Bd6 6. d4 Ne7 7.
dxc6 Nbxc6 8. d5 Nb4 9. Bc4 0-0 10. a3 b5 11. Bb3 Na6 12. Nxb5 Qa5+
13. Nc3 Nc5 14. Ba2 Ba6 15. b4 Qc7 16. bxc5 Rfe8 17. Ne2 Qxc5 18. c4
Nxd5 19. Qd4 Qxd4 20. Nxd4 Bc5 21. Kd2 Ne3 22. Kc3 Rac8 23. Bb2 Nxg2
24. Raf1 Rcd8 25. Rhg1 Re3+ 26. Kd2 f3 27. Rxf3 Rxf3 28. Rxg2 Rh3
29. Kc1 g6 30. a4 Bb7 31. Rf2 Ba8 32. Bb1 Rb8 33. Ba2 Rd3 34. Rf4
Rd2 35. Kxd2 Rxb2+ 36. Nc2 Rxa2 37. Nc3 Rb2 38. Rf6 Kg7 39. Rf1 f5
40. Nd5 Bxd5 41. cxd5 Rb3 42. h4 Kf6 43. Re1 Rh3 44. Re6+ Kf7 45. a5
Rxh4 46. Rc6 Bb4+ 47. Nxb4 Rxb4 48. Rc7+ Kf6
0-1

[D]r4rk1/p1q1nppp/b2b4/2nP4/1P3p2/P1N2N2/B1P3PP/R1BQK2R w - -

This position is at white's 16th move.  bxc5 leads to nastiness for white, but
is there a better move?  Perhaps 16. b5!?, preventing black's light-squared
bishop from pointing at f1 temporarily.  Or perhaps an immediate Ne2 would be a
little better, with the idea of castling to get the king to a safer place.
I'm especially interested to know what Gambit-Tiger sees here - does it see the
attack coming?

Thanks,
Jeremiah



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