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Subject: Re: Kingsafety testset requested

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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