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Subject: Re: CCT4 Sjeng operator viewpoint.

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 08:31:27 01/21/02

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On January 21, 2002 at 11:12:16, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On January 21, 2002 at 09:34:51, Chessfun wrote:
>

I didn't know that you were operating. Hi Sarah !

>>>Round 2.
>>Ban v Sjeng 1-0
>>Sjeng has black against Ban (Deep Junior 7). I made a new book from a 2600.pgn
>>file found at Mogens Larsen's website. (http://home1.stofanet.dk/moq) By move 15
>>Sjeng is out of book and on my other PC with Junior 7 loaded I can see Junior is
>>still in book. Sjeng manages to calculate and follows the book line till move
>>20. Sjeng seems to have a good game until move 29. when it plays 29.....Rxc5
>>instead of the probably better Bxd6. Sjeng is losing but not out until it plays
>>37....Qb2, I can see from Sjeng pondering the move and Junior's eval on my
>>other PC that the move is lost.
>
>[D]8/4kr2/p2bppQ1/4q3/Pp6/4P1P1/4BP1P/2R3K1 b - - 0 37
>
>This was a bitter pill. The tactical shot after Qb2? was not that hard
>to see, and I think most other amateurs will also find it fairly quickly.
>I will have to work on this...it should not have happened.
>
>It also blundered a move earlier:
>
>[D]8/4kr2/p2bppQ1/q7/Pp6/4P3/4BPPP/2R3K1 b - - 0 35
>
>Qe5 is not a good move here.
>

I think you are already lost here. What else ? Next move is Bh5 or Rc8. Qf5 Qxf5
exf5 Bxa6 +-

Junior thought you lost earlier, when after Nxf7 Rf8? (f5 is reasonable).

Amir


>>I let the game go on just to get to move 40 :-)
>>resigning after losing queen for rook. Junior played solid building it's
>>advantage slowly which wasn't what I had expected, which was for Junior to come
>>charging as version 7 is apt to do.
>
>Junior 7 seems to be very good at complicating the position, and when it
>does so, it often comes out on top. This is also what happened here. It
>complicated the position, all the while keeping it's opening advantage.
>When the tactics started, it came out on top.
>



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