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Subject: Re: Did Smirin have an easy win in game 2?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:51:37 04/15/02

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On April 15, 2002 at 17:46:55, Roy Eassa wrote:

>[Event "Internet match"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "2002.04.15"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "Hiarcs 8"]
>[Black "Ilya Smirin"]
>[Result "1/2-1/2"]
>[ECO "E92"]
>[BlackElo "2702"]
>[PlyCount "79"]
>
>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. dxe5 dxe5 8.
>Qxd8 Rxd8 9. Bg5 Re8 10. Nd5 Nxd5 11. cxd5 c6 12. Bc4 b5 13. Bb3 a5 14. a4 Bd7
>15. Nd2 bxa4 16. Bxa4 cxd5 17. exd5 Bxa4 18. Rxa4 Nd7 19. Be3 Bf8 20. Nc4 Bb4+
>21. Ke2 Rec8 22. b3 Rab8 23. Nxa5 Bxa5 24. Rxa5 Rxb3 25. Rd1 Kf8 26. d6 Rb7 27.
>Rc1 Rxc1 28. Ra8+ Rb8 29. Rxb8+ Nxb8 30. Bxc1 Ke8 31. Kd3 Kd7 32. Ba3 f5 33. g3
>g5 34. h3 h5 35. Kc4 Kc6 36. Kd3 Nd7 37. f3 Nf6 38. g4 fxg4 39. fxg4 hxg4 40.
>hxg4 1/2-1/2
>
>
>Position after 38.g4:
>
>[d] 8/8/2kP1n2/4pppp/6P1/B2K1P1P/8/8 b - - 0 38
>
>Can somebody confirm (or disprove) that this simple line would have won fairly
>easily for Black? :
>
>38...hxg4 39.hxg4 (forced) f4+ 40.Kd3 (forced) Kd7
>
>Looks like a win for Black, but a stronger player's opinion is requested.


it looks better for black...  Crafty says -1.40:

               14->  31.12  -1.40   1. ... hxg4 2. hxg4 f4 3. Ke2 e4 4.
                                    Bb2 exf3+ 5. Kxf3 Nd7 6. Bc1 Ne5+ 7.
                                    Ke4 Kxd6 8. Kf5 Nf3 9. Ke4 Nh4 10.
                                    Bxf4+ gxf4 11. Kxf4
               15    46.15  -1.50   1. ... hxg4 2. hxg4 f4 3. Ke2 e4 4.
                                    Bb2 exf3+ 5. Kxf3 Nd7 6. Bc1 Ne5+ 7.
                                    Ke4 Nxg4 8. Ba3 Ne3 9. Bc1 Nc4 10.
                                    Kf5 f3


Nothing says there isn't a draw buried in there somewhere of course...



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