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Subject: Re: US Championship Shahade vs Sagalchik, why did Sagalchik Resign???

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:03:49 01/14/02

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On January 14, 2002 at 23:35:23, James Doby  wrote:

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>  [D]4r3/2k1P2p/p1p1n1p1/1p1Q4/1q6/6N1/P4PPP/2R3K1 b - - 0 33
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>In this final position Sagalchik resigned however Fritz7a doesn't see him as
>lost at all, giving him a score of only -0.8, what's up with that?

An interesting question.  Here is the actual final position, and a bit of
analysis by Pepito:

Pepito> setboard 4r3/2k1P2p/p1p3p1/1p1Q4/1q1n4/6N1/P4PPP/2R3K1 w - - 0 34
Pepito> go
 5    57    92    16327  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Rc1-e1 Qd6xe5 Re1xe5 Kc7-d6 Re5-e4
 5    57    96    26196  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Rc1-e1 Qd6xe5 Re1xe5 Kc7-d6 Re5-e4
 6    24   103    52377  Qd5-e5 ?? Qb4-d6 Rc1-e1 Qd6xe5 Re1xe5 Kc7-d6 Re5-e4
 6    14   108    73965  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Qe5-e3 Re8xe7 Ng3-e4 Qd6-d5 f3
 6    14   114    96570  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Qe5-e3 Re8xe7 Ng3-e4 Qd6-d5 f3
 7   -15   124   140882  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Qe5xd6 Kc7xd6 Rc1-d1 c5 Ng3-e2 Re8xe7
Ne2xd4 c5xd4 Rd1xd4 Kd6-e5
 7   -15   150   230551  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Qe5xd6 Kc7xd6 Rc1-d1 c5 Ng3-e2 Re8xe7
Ne2xd4 c5xd4 Rd1xd4 Kd6-e5
 8   -14   170   315177  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Qe5xd6 Kc7xd6 Rc1-d1 c5 Ng3-e2 Kd6-d5
Ne2-f4 Kd5-e4 Nf4-d3 c4
 8   -14   209   455249  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Qe5xd6 Kc7xd6 Rc1-d1 c5 Ng3-e2 Kd6-d5
Ne2-f4 Kd5-e4 Nf4-d3 c4
 9   -23   251   651398  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Qe5xd6 Kc7xd6 Rc1-d1 c5 Ng3-e2 Re8xe7
Ne2xd4 c5xd4 Rd1xd4 Kd6-c5 Rd4-d1 Re7-e2
 9   -23   327   969251  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Qe5xd6 Kc7xd6 Rc1-d1 c5 Ng3-e2 Re8xe7
Ne2xd4 c5xd4 Rd1xd4 Kd6-c5 Rd4-d1 Re7-e2
10   -23   404  1333929  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Qe5xd6 Kc7xd6 Rc1-d1 c5 Ng3-e2 Re8xe7
Ne2xd4 c5xd4 Rd1xd4 Kd6-c5 Rd4-d1 Re7-e2 a3
10   -23   520  1817989  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Qe5xd6 Kc7xd6 Rc1-d1 c5 Ng3-e2 Re8xe7
Ne2xd4 c5xd4 Rd1xd4 Kd6-c5 Rd4-d1 Re7-e2 a3
11   -31   693  2645324  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Qe5xd6 Kc7xd6 Rc1-d1 c5 Ng3-e2 Re8xe7
Ne2xd4 c5xd4 Rd1xd4 Kd6-c5 Rd4-d1 Re7-e2 a3 a5
11   -31   954  3764288  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Qe5xd6 Kc7xd6 Rc1-d1 c5 Ng3-e2 Re8xe7
Ne2xd4 c5xd4 Rd1xd4 Kd6-c5 Rd4-d1 Re7-e2 a3 a5
12   -31  1259  5207388  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Qe5xd6 Kc7xd6 Rc1-d1 c5 Ng3-e2 Re8xe7
Ne2xd4 c5xd4 Rd1xd4 Kd6-c5 Rd4-d1 Re7-e2 a3 a5 Kg1-f1
12   -31  1694  7054151  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Qe5xd6 Kc7xd6 Rc1-d1 c5 Ng3-e2 Re8xe7
Ne2xd4 c5xd4 Rd1xd4 Kd6-c5 Rd4-d1 Re7-e2 a3 a5 Kg1-f1
13   -31  2497 10702200  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Qe5xd6 Kc7xd6 Rc1-d1 c5 Ng3-e2 Re8xe7
Ne2xd4 c5xd4 Rd1xd4 Kd6-c5 Rd4-d1 Re7-e2 a3 a5 Kg1-f1 Re2-c2
13   -31  3620 15341311  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Qe5xd6 Kc7xd6 Rc1-d1 c5 Ng3-e2 Re8xe7
Ne2xd4 c5xd4 Rd1xd4 Kd6-c5 Rd4-d1 Re7-e2 a3 a5 Kg1-f1 Re2-c2
14   -45  5522 24161529  Qd5-e5 Qb4-d6 Qe5xd6 Kc7xd6 Rc1-d1 c5 Ng3-e2 Re8xe7
Ne2xd4 c5xd4 Rd1xd4 Kd6-c5 Rd4-d1 Re7-e2 Rd1-a1 b4 Kg1-f1 Re2-c2 Kf1-g1

Hardly seems disastrous at this point.



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