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Subject: Re: Interesting Position (from Anand-Bologan)

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 18:35:49 12/01/00

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On December 01, 2000 at 20:49:31, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>On December 01, 2000 at 12:57:57, Franck ZIBI wrote:
>
>>
>>In the round 2.2 of the World Championship in India (1st Dec.),
>>Anand faced IGM Bologan with white, and reached the following position :
>>
>>[D] 2b1rb1k/2r2ppp/n2p4/3P2PN/3NPQ2/2p3RP/1q3PK1/1B1R4 w - -
>>
>>Bologan has just played 36. ... c3 with (what looks like)
>>a very good position for black (the c3 pawn is a monster).
>>
>>But Anand played here an impressive move that forced his opponent to
>>resign 5 moves later:
>>
>>Nf6!!
>>
>>The idea is that after
>>37. Nf6 gxf6
>>38. gxf6 Re5
>>39. Nf5! is winning for white
>>
>>and after:
>>37. Nf6 gxf6
>>38. gxf6 h6
>>39. Kh1 (with the idea Rdg1) is very strong for white.
>
>I think 38...h6 improves on the game. After this, 39.Kh1 looks like a mistake,
>but even 38.Kh2 is not convincing as far as I can see. Can you elaborate on your
>analysis? I think 37.Nf6 is a correct move, but it may not win.

Yikes! 39.Kh1 is stronger than I thought at first. Nice.

>
>>
>>Is any program able to find Nf6 at tournament time control ?
>>
>>Regards.



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