Author: Michael Williams
Date: 23:52:29 04/14/02
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On April 15, 2002 at 01:03:23, martin fierz wrote:
>On April 15, 2002 at 00:38:46, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>
>>On April 14, 2002 at 16:16:57, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>>
>>>[Event "?"]
>>>[Site "?"]
>>>[Date "????.??.??"]
>>>[Round "?"]
>>>[White "GM Smirin"]
>>>[Black "Deep Shredder"]
>>>[Result "1-0"]
>>>[ECO "A22"]
>>>[Annotator "Frederic"]
>>>[PlyCount "48"]
>>>
>>>1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 Bb4 4. Bg2 O-O 5. e4 Bxc3 6. bxc3 d6 7. Ne2 Bg4 8. f3
>>>Be6 9. d3 {Time: 57:13 - 57:13} 9... c5 {
>>>Jeremia: The open b-line is good for White} 10. O-O h6 11. h3 a6 12. a4 {
>>>Dual Pentium Intel 1 GHz 750 MB RAM. Time 53:07 - 55:32} 12... b6 13. f4 Nc6
>>>14. f5 Bd7 15. g4 {Time 52:04 - 53:09} 15... Qc7 {
>>>A typical anti-computer crush, people think} 16. Ng3 {"Smirin is going for
>>>mate!" (EJ) - "Don't count Shredder out, counterplay can come in many ways"
>>>(Hytnen)} 16... Na5 17. h4 Nh7 {"Smirin fumbles and drops Pocket Fritz on the
>>>floor" (Longshanks) - Time 48:22 - 48:40} 18. g5 hxg5 19. hxg5 {
>>>"Hallali, oooohhhh" -- Hiarcs 8: +1.55} 19... Qb7 {
>>>Fritz wants Qh5 at 11 ply. Hiarcs 8 agrees, with +2.59} 20. Be3 {
>>>Time 44:19 - 44:45 Geordi: "Shredder's radar seems to be busted!"} 20... b5 {
>>>Tiger: 1.66 Sleepy: Smirin is kicking himself for not playing Qh5 right away.}
>>>21. axb5 axb5 22. Qh5 {Siam: "Boooommm" Fritz 1.78, Hiarcs 8: 2.47} 22... bxc4
>>>23. f6 {Is Shredder playing badly or Smirin brilliantly? Boris: Shredder must
>>>keep its cool now. Hiarcs: +3.30! Time: 42:56 - 41:25 "Poor Shreddy" (Ognaramr)
>>>Jeremia: "Go, Smirin, go, go, go!" Knallo: Think of it as a win for humanity!
>>>Smirin has left the board. Black is down ot 33 minutes.} 23... Rfc8 24. fxg7 {
>>>Karabella: Hunting Red October! Woodcrusher: Hasta la vista, Shredder! Hiarcs:
>>>+6.38! Henni: Shredder overlooked king safety badly. "Smirin is in the butt
>>>kickin business" (NYTed)} 24... Bg4 {Fly: Call Shredder's mom and tell her
>>>he's not coming home. Times: 40:35 - 20:10. LeMagician: "I want to see MATE!"
>>>Hiarcs: 9.27 for White. Krennwurzn: "Shredder to God: please let him blunder!"}
>>>1-0
>>
>>Has anyone bothered to pinpoint the decisive mistake from Shredder?
>>
>>Peter
>
>hi peter,
>see comments on chessbase website.
>http://www.chessbase.com/events/games/2002_smirin/smirin.htm
>they give 14.f5 +- before that it's 7...Bg4? 8...Be6? 9...c5? 10...h6? - a whole
>series of awful moves. probably its already lost there. BTW, this is nearly the
>game van wely - fritz SSS of the dutch championship.
>
>aloha
> martin
I'm really surprised that this opening idea was not patched up by updating
Shredder's opening book before the game, unless this was not allowed.
If it was not allowed, then we are wasting time to have this game 'replayed'
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