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Subject: Re: Was Junior's loss due to opening book error?!

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 14:25:10 07/08/02

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On July 08, 2002 at 17:13:12, Omid David wrote:

>On July 08, 2002 at 17:06:02, Amir Ban wrote:
>
>>On July 08, 2002 at 16:18:31, Omid David wrote:
>>
>>>It seems to me that Junior lost the game to Shredder due to an opening book
>>>error, since I doubt if Junior would wander its king on d2 deliberatly...
>>
>>The opening is ok. The bad moves, according to GM Alterman are:
>>
>>16.Nxe5? - white has space, centre and development advantage, but against the
>>two bishops and with king in the centre this pawn should be left alone.
>>
>>27.Nxd7? - the fatal mistake. White must develop the rook, 27. Rae1 Nd3 28. Nxd3
>>exd3+ 29. Kxd3! Bb5+ 30. Nxb5 Qxd5+ 31. Nd4 Qc4+ 32. Kd2 Red8 33. Ke3 Rxd4 34.
>>Qxd4 Re8+ 35. Kf3 Qxd4 36. Rxe8+ =
>>
>>Deep Junior 7 - Shredder [E20]
>>10. WCCC 2002 Maastricht (4), 07.07.2002
>>
>>1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.f3 d5 5.a3 Be7 6.e4 dxe4 7.fxe4 e5 8.d5 0-0 9.Bd3
>>Ng4 10.Nf3 Bc5 11.Qe2 Bf2+ 12.Kd2 Bc5 13.h3 Nf2 14.Rf1 Nxd3 15.Kxd3 c6 16.Nxe5
>>Bd6 17.Ng4 cxd5 18.exd5 f5 19.Nf2 Bd7 20.Be3 Re8 21.Qf3 Na6 22.Bf4 Bxf4 23.Qxf4
>>b5 24.Kc2 Rc8 25.Nd3 bxc4 26.Ne5 Nc5 27.Nxd7 Qxd7 28.Rad1 Rb8 29.Rb1 a5 30.Qxf5
>>Qb7 31.d6 Qb3+ 32.Kc1 Qb6 33.b4 cxb3 34.Qd5+ Re6 35.Rd1 b2+ 36.Kc2 Kh8 37.Qc4
>>Ree8 0-1
>
>Assuming that Junior played Kd2 out of book, it's interesting to know why it
>preferred that square to d1 ....!

Both were out of book after 9.Bd3.

12.Kd1 indeed looks better than Kd2, because after 12...Bc5 (or Bb6) white can
play Rf1 immediately.

Amir




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