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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger vs. The Web ... not easy the position ...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:21:50 04/02/01

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On April 02, 2001 at 17:52:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 02, 2001 at 16:17:16, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On April 02, 2001 at 16:07:12, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On April 02, 2001 at 15:50:24, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi there,
>>>>
>>>>in the game Chess Tiger vs. The Web ...
>>>>http://www.rebel.nl/gt2-web.htm
>>>>
>>>>the position is not easy for The Web. White have at the moment all important
>>>>fields and black not a very good plan. So I think an idea is to play h5 later
>>>>Ng8 - Ne7 to have here more possibiliys on the king side.
>>>>
>>>>We will see ... interesting ... !
>>>>
>>>>Best
>>>>Frank
>>>
>>>If white can't win with a king-side attack it is going to lose miserably in
>>>the endgame.
>>
>>
>>
>>I do not understand the basis for this remark.
>>
>>I don't see any long term weakness in white's position. So what?
>>
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>
>All you have to do is look at the board.  White has weaknesses _everywhere_
>
>Every time you push a pawn, you create a weakness...  white has pushed
>several.  I would suggest asking a good IM/GM as to how this looks.  To me,
>white had better roll on the kingside before the endgame arrives.  Otherwise
>black can infiltrate wherever he wants, while white will be tied to defending
>all the weak squares he has created with those pawn pushes...

I do not know

Here is the only game that I find from the relevant position
I tend to agree with christophe.

[Event "Wijk m"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee"]
[Date "1993.01.??"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Salov,Valery"]
[Black "Akopian,Vladimir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A45"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 Ne4 3.Bf4 c5 4.f3 Qa5+ 5.c3 Nf6 6.Nd2 cxd4 7.Nb3 Qb6 8.Qxd4 Qxd4
9.cxd4 d5 10.e3 e6 11.g4 Nc6 12.Bb5 Bd7 13.a3 Kd8 14.Rc1 Ne8 15.Nc5 Bxc5 16.Rxc5
Ke7
17.Ne2 Nd6 18.Bd3 Rac8 19.b4 b6 20.Rc3 a5 21.b5 Na7 22.a4 Rxc3 23.Nxc3 Rc8
24.Kd2 Nc4+
25.Kc2 f6 26.e4 dxe4 27.fxe4 Nd6 28.Kb3 Nf7 29.e5 Rh8 30.Ne4 h5 31.g5 fxg5
32.Nxg5 Nh6
33.Bc1 Nc8 34.Rf1 h4 35.h3 Rg8 36.Bh7 Rh8 37.Bg6 Be8 38.Ba3+ Kd7 39.Be4 Ne7
40.Bxe7 Kxe7
41.Rc1 Bd7 42.Rc7 Kd8 43.Rb7  1-0


Uri



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