Author: Chessfun
Date: 09:40:54 01/21/02
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On January 21, 2002 at 11:31:27, Amir Ban wrote: >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 ! Hi Amir, I think as I wrote that 29....Rxc5 losing. There were other moves later I felt were weaker than other choices such as Qe5 when I felt Qf5 was better, but never enough to hold a draw. f5 earlier was also much better than Rf8? after Nxf7. Good luck for the rest of the tourney. 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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