Author: Albert Silver
Date: 13:42:28 05/14/01
Go up one level in this thread
On May 13, 2001 at 16:12:29, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:
>In the by now famous balcony series (see
>http://home.wxs.nl/~jimvandorp/balconychess.jpg)
I heard that you got an offer from CNN to host a weekly show, right after Larry
King Weekend, called Jeroen's Famous Balcony Massacres. Will they be using this
photo? The Smithsonian may want a copy of your T-shirt to place next to the
dress Judy Garland used in The Wizard of Oz.
>Gandalf 4.32h lost on *time*.... amazing. It missed the first check at 40
>minutes by only three moves, but it did.
>
That's amazing. 3 (!!!) moves??? Wow, looks like something went gung-ho in the
poor thing's time management.
>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.
Thanks for sharing. :-) BTW, one suggestion: the next time you might consider
giving it a time handicap. :-)
Albert
>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.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.