Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 13:51:02 06/25/01
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On June 25, 2001 at 16:23:34, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>On June 25, 2001 at 15:42:39, Chris Carson wrote:
>
>>I am really serious about this. I do not know of any "this type of position"
>>and I have looked for a long time now. Also most programmers and players >>would benefit from this knowledge.
>
>This 'kind' of setup still works for me sometimes, and I'm
>(barely) a 1200.
>
>[D]r2q1rk1/pp1b1ppp/2nbpn2/3pN3/2pP1P2/2P1PN2/PPB3PP/R1BQ1RK1 b - - 0 1
>
>Programs are getting better and better in avoiding it,
>but if they _do_ end up in here their play often isn't very good...
[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "?"]
[Round "-"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[FEN "r2q1rk1/pp1b1ppp/2nbpn2/3pN3/2pP1P2/2P1PN2/PPB3PP/R1BQ1RK1 b - - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
{--------------
r . . q . r k .
p p . b . p p p
. . n b p n . .
. . . p N . . .
. . p P . P . .
. . P . P N . .
P P B . . . P P
R . B Q . R K .
black to play
--------------}
1... b5 2. h3 Be8 3. g4 Ne4 4. Kh2 f6 5. Nxc6 Bxc6 6. Qe2 a5 7. Qg2 Ng5 8.
Kh1 Nxf3 9. Rxf3 b4 10. Bd2 b3 11. Bxh7+ Kxh7 12. a3 Qe7 13. Rg1 Kg8 14. f5
e5 15. g5 e4 16. Rff1 Qf7 17. g6 Qd7 18. Qg4 Rfe8 19. Qh5 Kf8 20. Qh7 Ke7
21. Qxg7+ Kd8 22. Qxf6+ Kc7 23. g7 Rg8 24. h4 Ra6 25. h5 Be7 26. Qh6 Bb7
27. Rg6 Qe8 28. Qf4+ Kd7 29. f6 Bxf6 30. Qg4+ Ke7 31. h6 Qf7 32. Qg3 Kd7
33. Qh3+ Kc7 34. h7 Rxg7 35. Qg3+ Kd7 36. Rxg7 Qxg7 37. Qxg7+ Bxg7 38. Rf7+
Kd8 39. Rxg7
*
Note that it would be impossible to win this way vs crafty because
it would simply NEVER allow you to reach the starting position.
The actual game where this position comes from went like this:
[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "?"]
[Round "-"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. e3 e6 3. Bd3 d5 4. f4 Bb4+ 5. c3 Bd6 6. Nf3 O-O 7. O-O c5 8.
Nbd2 Nc6 9. Ne5 c4 10. Bc2 Bd7 11. Ndf3 Bxe5 12. Nxe5 Nxe5 13. fxe5 Ne8 14.
Qh5 f5 15. Rf3 Rf7 16. Rh3 g6 17. Qh6 Rg7 18. g4 fxg4 19. Rh4 Bc6 20. Bxg6
hxg6 21. Rxg4 Kf7 22. e4 dxe4 23. Bg5 Qd7 24. Rf1+ Kg8
Here I missed the mate by Rh4 and played the losing move Bf6 instead :(
Black was an amateur program.
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GCP
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