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Subject: Re: Tiger's 29...Bxa1?

Author: Keith Ian Price

Date: 14:28:58 04/28/02

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On April 28, 2002 at 17:08:38, Roy Brunjes wrote:

>On April 28, 2002 at 16:53:47, Ron Norris wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>Could Tiger have maintained pressure, and possibly wrung out a victory
>>by avoiding taking the rook on a1?
>>
>>Ron
>
>It appears that 29. ... g4 was a better move than Bxa1.  GT on my machine during
>the game did not waiver from ... g4 as best (running in analysis mode).  Curious
>that GT on its hardware playing Smirin somehow saw Bxa1 as better.  Junior 7
>never seriously considers ... Bxa1 and thinks ... g4 is best given 2 seconds or
>more to ponder the position.
>
>I do not have Hiarcs 8 yet, so I cannot comment there.
>
>An amazing game by Smirin!


I was following the game with Chess Tiger 14.0 running on a P4 2.2Ghz, just as
GT was to have been. CT 14.0 agreed with every move that was played by GT. After
about 1 minute GT switches to g4, but CT does not even after 3 minutes. I
believe they were playing Chess Tiger not Gambit Tiger.

kp



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