Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 08:21:10 04/30/01
In the first game Shredder5 defeated me with a nice attack in 43 moves. I paused
an hour and started the second game in which nothing special happened. The
result: draw. For the whole game Shredder5 needed only 10 minutes.
[Event "Shredder5 40/40'"]
[Site "Switzerland"]
[Date "2001.04.30"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Utzinger, Kurt"]
[Black "Shredder 5.0"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A06"]
[WhiteElo "1993"]
[BlackElo "2500"]
[Annotator "2001-04-30"]
[PlyCount "30"]
[EventDate "2001.04.30"]
{P3_800/128, 32 MB hash, 4-men and partly 5-men TB's, book=standard
} 1. Nf3
{This is my preferred opening move against strong[er] players. So why not try
vs the micro chess computer world champion?} 1... d5 2. e3 Nf6 3. b3 Bg4 4. Bb2
{Not allowing Black's e7-e5.} 4... Nbd7 5. Be2 {Unpinning the knight and
preparing the castle. If now 5...Bxf3 6.Bf3 e5 White obtains the bishop pair.}
5... e6 6. O-O Bd6 7. d4 {And Shredder5 was out of book only to come back with
the next move. Another good continuation is 7.c4.} 7... c6 8. c4 Qb8 {
The expected move was 8...0-0 as per the line below from the Shredder book.
Now I had something to reflect. My first and unusual idea was to try 9.g3.
This however weakens the king's wing and Black can launch an not at all clear
attach with 9...h5. And furthermore I feared sacrifices on the square g3.} (
8... O-O 9. Nbd2 Qe7 10. Ne5 Bxe2 11. Qxe2 Ba3 12. Bxa3 Qxa3 13. f4 Rfd8 14. g4
Qe7 15. g5 Ne8 16. c5 Nxe5 17. fxe5 Qxg5+) 9. Nbd2 O-O 10. h3 {
White's clock: 08:25} 10... Bf5 {Black last book move} (10... Bh5 11. Rc1 Re8 {
leads to another game with more tension and therefore is the better choice for
a computer to play against human.}) 11. cxd5 {Of course had White also taken
into consideration 11.Nh4 Be4 12.Nxe4 but I thought that Black would reply
with the unpleasant 12...dxe4. Maybe bad judgment on my side but I did not
want to investe too much time in this line. And against stronger opponents one
is well advised not to loose to much time in such moves when one has found
another good plan.} (11. Nh4 Be4 12. Nxe4 Nxe4 13. Bd3 f5 14. Nf3 a5 15. a4 Qe8
16. Ne5 Nxe5 17. dxe5 Bb4 {Shredder5-book}) 11... cxd5 12. Nh4 Be4 13. Nhf3 {
A safe return instead of the sharper 12.f3 that weakens the dark squares on my
king's wing. Now I was ready for the exchange Nd2xe4 and obviously Shredder5
won't allow this.} 13... Bf5 14. Nh4 Be4 15. Nhf3 Bf5 {
and here Shredder5 offered a draw what I accepted.} 1/2-1/2
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