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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:24:42 04/16/02

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On April 16, 2002 at 05:49:13, Ed Schröder wrote:

>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.
>
>
>Rebel (giving it 30-60 secs average) came up with this line...
>
>1... hxg4 2. hxg4 f4 3. Ke2 Kd7 4. Bb4 Ne8 5. Bc3 Kxd6 6. Bb4+ Ke6 7. Ba5 Nd6 8.
>Bd8 Nf7 9. Ba5 Kd5 10. Kd3 Nd6 11. Bd8 Nb5 12. Ke2 Nd4+ 13. Kf2 Ne6 14. Bb6 Kc4
>15. Ba5 Kc5 16. Bc3 Nd4 17. Ba5 Nc6 18. Bc3 Kc4 19. Ba1 Kb3 20. Ke2 Kc2 21. Kf2
>Kd2 22. Bb2 Nb4 23. Ba3 Nd3+ 24. Kf1 Ke3 25. Be7 Kxf3 26. Bxg5 e4 0-1
>
>I am not sure if white has an escape after all, but it seems to be the classical
>struggle the knight being superior to the bishop.
>
>Ed

yace says that 3.Ke2 is losing 0.01 pawns and I suspect that these 0.01 pawns
may be decisive for the result of the game.

New position
8/8/2kP1n2/4p1p1/5pP1/B2K1P2/8/8 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Yace 0.99.56:

3.Ke2 Ne8 4.Bb2 Kxd6 5.Ba3+ Ke6 6.Bf8 Nd6 7.Bh6 Nf7 8.Bg7 Kd5 9.Kd3 Nd6 10.Ke2
e4 11.Bf6 Nf7 12.Kf2 exf3 13.Bh8
  µ  (-1.18)   Depth: 19   00:04:52  76538kN
3.Bb4 e4+ 4.fxe4 Nxg4 5.e5 Nxe5+ 6.Ke4 Nc4 7.Bc3 Nxd6+ 8.Kf3 Nc4 9.Ke4 Kd7
10.Bf6 Nd2+ 11.Kd3 Nf3
  µ  (-1.17)   Depth: 19   00:08:00  149829kN
3.Bb4 e4+ 4.fxe4 Nxg4 5.e5 Nxe5+ 6.Ke4 Nc4 7.Bc3 Nxd6+ 8.Kf3 Nc4 9.Ke4
  µ  (-1.17)   Depth: 19   00:08:45  167224kN

(Blass, Tel-aviv 16.04.2002)

Uri



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