Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 15:03:37 02/02/01
This is a quick translation of IM Hannu Wegner: According to my opinion the victory of Shredder 5 against Nimzo 8 could have quite more highly failed. Shredder 5 was already brought to some portions by the selection of the respective initialization version in difficulties. Like already in the match against Deep Fritz usually Nebenvarianten of Shredder 5 were played. Contrary to the match against Deep Fritz in this match not only Nebenvarianten, separate simply bad initialization selected. An example is the 15. Portion. Like already in the 4. Round (there against junior 6) played very passive 5... Le7 against the lady Indian with 4.a3?!. If black is to absolutely go a side path, then at least 5... g6 (often applied by Romanischin) are the correct way. In the portion sequence Shredder 5 landed immediately in an unpleasantly passive position. Nimzo had more in the portions from the play whenever the own center position could be referred and also fastened. Static farmer structures seem to be appropriate for Nimzo 8 well. Good examples are here the 1. Portion (Shredder 5 goes with 5... b5?! again times a side path) and the 5. Portion in addition, the 8. Portion. Above all the 5.Partie pleases me from view of Nimzo 8 well. Shredder 5 rochiert with its king directly into the danger zone. My judgement begins Shredder with 12... e5 on Abwege to already go. Black in any case must try the opponent one as in the portion activity shown to prevent in such positions. Possibly the black king belongs also on the lady wing. With 15... 0-0 black provided a " eleven-meter " for the opponent, whereby he placed at the same time a 1,2m to large torwart in the gate. To regard somewhat unpleasantly the play way of Nimzo 8 works in the 13. Portion. In addition, this blockade strategy is " Nimzo typical ". Shredder 5 could against it particularly in positions in which flexible farmers in motion could turn out advantages for itself to register. See for this the exemplary example in the 2. Portion. In addition, 3., 4. and 17. It shows portion well that Shredder understands 5 it very well the own farmers in motion to set. Particularly impressively is above all the 2.Partie, in which Shredder converts text book-like the own farmer majority at the Konigsfluegel into a crucial advantage. One notes that with 26.g4 an exchange is prevented by light figures. In the portion sequence black can be waiting the end with frights because of the developing lack of space only In the 9. Portion sacrifices Nimzo 8 incomprehensible-proves quality in the final game. Even if black should win the white farmer d6, then white in a tower final game had hardly a defeat to fear, if it can attack the opposing a-farmer with its tower of " in the back ". In the 11. Portion could attain Nimzo with an unusual material relation (4 light figures against 2 towers and a hand fully farmers) clear advantage. In the final game Nimzo commits a crucial error however with 64.Lxb6, after which Shredder attains a Remisstellung can. With 64... Tb8 an d 66... Txb6 and following exchange a position develops for farmers, in the whites with 2 Springer against 2 farmers plays. In the conclusion position it should be noted that the position Remis is, if the farmer f6 is struck would be white able the black g-farmer to remove, then could still win white. Even if Shredder 5 with 66... Txb6! still negative evaluation displays, then this is however the only emergency route, which is pursued by Shredder 5 in a practical portion. And whereupon it arrives nevertheless, or not? I assume that programs without Tablebases do not find this way. In the end also few Genialitaet of Shredder. In the 12. Portion is provoked black to the course 10... Lxc3+. After 11. Sxc3 would hang g3 and after 11.bxc3 would have black for the weakened Koeningstellung a certain compensation in the bad white farmer position. With not even obvious course the 11. Kf2! in astonishing simple way large advantage. With a better initialization selection Shredder 5 could have obtained a still better result surely. Shredder 5 showed a substantially abwechlungsreicheres chess compared with Nimzo 8. Pichard.
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