Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:21:14 04/14/02
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On April 14, 2002 at 04:47:14, Tony Hedlund wrote: >[Event "Tony Hedlund"] >[Site "SSDF"] >[Date "2002.04.14"] >[Round "3"] >[White "Chess System Tal 2.03 P200"] >[Black "Chess Tiger 14.9 Palm"] >[WhiteElo "2250"] >[Result "1-0"] >[Opening "C14 French: Classical, Steinitz Variation"] > >1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. f4 O-O >8. Nf3 Nb6 9. Bd3 f5 10. exf6 Rxf6 11. Ne5 Rxf4 12. Bxh7+ Kxh7 13. Qh5+ Kg8 >14. Ng6 Qe8 15. Qh8+ Kf7 16. Qxe8+ Kxe8 17. Nxf4 g5 18. Nh3 g4 19. Nf2 Nc4 >20. Nxg4 Nxb2 21. O-O Nc4 22. Rae1 c6 23. h4 Ke7 24. h5 Nd7 25. h6 b5 >26. h7 Bb7 27. Nh6 Nf6 28. Ng8+ Rxg8 29. Rxe6+ Kxe6 30. Rxf6+ Kxf6 >31. hxg8=Q Nd6 1-0 > >A great game by Tal. First it sacrified a bishop, then both rooks! Tiger was >blown of the board! > >Tony To be fair, after 1...Rxf4? it was all over. It was absolutely a losing move and after the following combination (not a true "sacrifice" in that the material [and more] was won back by force), what happened is kind of irrelevant IMHO. Prior to this blunder (probably due to insufficient CPU speed to calculate the forcing result), the two key places moves where (IMHO) CST outplayed CT were: 8...Nb6?, which seems contrary to the usual plan of ...c5; and 11.Ne5!. Even without the blunder of 11...Rxf4?, Black was worse; the blunder essentially ended the game at move 12, IMHO.
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