Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 13:12:29 05/13/01
In the by now famous balcony series (see
http://home.wxs.nl/~jimvandorp/balconychess.jpg)
Gandalf 4.32h lost on *time*.... amazing. It missed the first check at 40
minutes by only three moves, but it did.
Maybe it sees me as its surrogate "mother" and decided I needed a present at
mother's day...:)
On the above link (jpeg, 73Kb) you can see me overconfident behind the board
(look at the T-shirt, it has "chess" written all over it, bought by Van Stockum
in The Hague), but my cigar went out soon and so went my hopes, until....
Of course the game was totally lost for me, as I was playing my own, well known
lousy level (=level D-minus).
Here's the game, with some high level comment as a compensation.
Put it in your database, one day it will be a relic (from a different age).
(Empty.ctg means Gandalf uses it's own opening book. It's a Wolga-Benkö. Playing
on a PIII-750@840MHz)
[Event "Level=40'/40+40'/40+40'"]
[Site "Utrecht"]
[Date "2001.05.13"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Gandalf 4.32h"]
[Black "Dorp,van, Jeroen"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A57"]
{128MB, Empty.ctg. CyberJerry
} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. e3
g6 6. Nc3 Bg7 7. Nf3 O-O 8. a4 d6 9. Be2 axb5 10. Bxb5 Ba6 11. Bxa6 Nxa6 12.
O-O {last book move Gandalf} 12... Nc7 13. e4 Nd7 14. Ng5 Qb8 15. Qd3 (15. Qf3)
15... Ne5 16. Qh3 h6 17. Nf3 Nxf3+ ({Afterwards I saw I also could have played
} 17... Nd3 18. Bxh6 Qxb2 19. Bxg7 Kxg7 20. Qd7 Rfc8 21. Nb5 Nxb5 22. Qxb5 $14)
18. Qxf3 g5 {I already had my doubts about the coming manoeuver Nc3-e2-g3-f5.
For now white can't afford to leave c3 because of the double attack on b2.} 19.
h4 f6 {Now my black bishop is totally locked up, and white can start
transfering its knight to the king's side.} 20. Qf5 Qc8 {I'm looking for ways
to diminish the pressure on my kingside by exchanging the queens.} 21. Qxc8
Rfxc8 22. f4 g4 23. f5 {I try to lock the position.} (23. h5 f5 24. exf5 {
and white is welcome to take that pawn because of} 24... Rf8 {
leaving it undefendable.} (24... Bxc3 25. bxc3 Nxd5 {seems better})) 23... h5 {
but this will be a weak point.} 24. Ne2 {there it goes.} 24... Kf7 (24... Kh7
$2 25. Ng3 {and the pawn is lost.}) 25. Nf4 Rh8 26. a5 Na6 27. Rf2 Rab8 28. Re2
Rb7 29. Ra4 Rb4 30. Rxb4 Nxb4 31. Bd2 Na6 {and my knight is standing guard,
unable to participate in play. Now I have to wait for white to enter my
queenside, as my rook has to stand guard for h5.} 32. Kf2 (32. -- {
I now am looking for} 32... Bh6 {and I thought} 33. Nxh5 $2 ({
but totally oversaw} 33. Ng6) 33... Bxd2 34. Rxd2 Rxh5 $15) 32... Bh6 $2 33.
Ng6 $1 {Oops, mistake from me.} 33... Rh7 34. Bxh6 Rxh6 35. Re3 {there it comes
. I won't make it. But will white make it to the first time control?} 35... Rh7
36. Rb3 Rg7 {I'm too late...} 37. Rb6 {But Gandalf is, too. It's time. Maybe I
should have been a sportsman, and offer it draw. Of course it would have
rejected that. So I claim a sham victory....} 0-1
[D]8/4pkr1/nR1p1pN1/P1pP1P1p/4P1pP/8/1P3KP1/8 b - - 0 37
Okay then, don't put it in your database, suit yourself.
J.
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