Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 12:33:59 04/21/02
With 17.b5, Tiger leaved the Theory, Bg4 was played 1 time before ...
[Event "Internet Challenge"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2002.04.21"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Chess Tiger"]
[Black "Ilya Smirin"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "E92"]
[BlackElo "2702"]
[Annotator "Frederic"]
[PlyCount "34"]
{Standing by for Tiger vs Tiger. Game will start at 19:00 h GMT = 20:00 h
London = 21:00 h Paris/Berlin = 3 p.m. NY We usually get the first ten moves
in a burst. I will be periodically posting times in the notation. Smirin has
not yet arrived. Because of the number of people in the chat we request you
to keep it down a bit (no flooding) And NO PINGING! Still no moves from
Israel Shay says they have a minor webcam problem and will start in a few
minutes.} 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 {Why do computers/programmers keep avoiding 1.e4
agains Smirin? (Evan Katz. This is going to be a draw. (Murugan)} 9... c6 10.
Nxe5 Re8 11. O-O-O Na6 12. f4 {Time: 1h:01-0h:59} 12... Nc5 13. Bxf6 Bxf6 {
Time: 60:56} 14. b4 {Curious: Tiger wants to crush Smirin. FA: Tiger has his
pawns on parade. NYTed: If Smirin had white he would lose the white side here.
Steff: Black is okay. Murugan: Smirin getting a taste of his own medicine.}
14... Bxe5 15. fxe5 Nd7 {Spielhase: vernuenftige Entscheidung. NYTed: Let's
see if he is still in "The Butt Kickin Business". FA: Am I the only one who
actually prefers White's position? Time: 57:53} 16. e6 {FA: watch...a CT pawn
sac for a few tempi :) Time: 55:52 Shredder: 0.73, Fritz7 0.44} 16... Rxe6 17.
b5 Re8 {
Veresov: Looks like white is going to an inferior ending when the dust settles}
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