Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 09:23:19 09/22/01
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On September 22, 2001 at 11:38:14, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On September 22, 2001 at 10:14:11, Thomas Mayer wrote: > >>Hi Gian-Carlo, >> >>here is a game to that issue: >> >>[Event "1st Intl. CSVN Trn."] >>[Site "Leiden NED"] >>[Date "2001.05.20"] >>[Round "07"] >>[White "Tao"] >>[Black "Quark"] >>[Result "1-0"] >> >>1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. f4 Nxe4 4. Nc3 Nd6 5. Bb3 exf4 6. Nf3 Be7 7. Ne5 >>Bh4+ 8. g3 fxg3 9. O-O gxh2+ 10. Kh1 O-O 11. Qh5 Bf6 12. d4 b6 13. Kxh2 Ba6 >>14. Rf3 Bxe5+ 15. dxe5 g6 16. Qh6 Qe7 17. exd6 Qxd6+ 18. Bf4 Qd4 19. Ne4 >>Bf1 20. Raxf1 >>1-0 >> >> >>Quark fall in a booktrap here... last bookmove of Tao was 12. d4 (Quark was >>after 3. f4 out of book) >> >>Position after 12. d4 >>[D]rnbq1rk1/pppp1ppp/3n1b2/4N2Q/3P4/1BN5/PPP4p/R1B2R1K b - d3 0 12 > >This looks extremely hard because of the position of the white king. > >I think current Sjeng would try hard to trade off as much >pieces as possible, to diminish the attack on the white king, >instead of understanding it's black who is in trouble. > >-- >GCP Then that makes is a good test position! ;-) It's pretty clear that White's king is perfectly safe at the moment, and that the correct plan is to go and thrash Black's king before that changes. Dave
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