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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:17:55 07/08/02

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On July 08, 2002 at 17:58:29, Omid David wrote:

>On July 08, 2002 at 17:56:05, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On July 08, 2002 at 17:44:25, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On July 08, 2002 at 17:32:25, Omid David wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 08, 2002 at 17:23:14, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On July 08, 2002 at 16:59:55, Omid David wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On July 08, 2002 at 16:53:09, Uri Blass 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...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I do not think that Junior lost because of book error.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I know that Junior evaluates itself as better after the opening and I believe
>>>>>>>that Junior has enough compensation in mobility of pieces for the fact that the
>>>>>>>king went to d2.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I believe that Junior lost against shredder because of mistakes many moves after
>>>>>>>it left book.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Uri
>>>>>>
>>>>>>But what made it prefer d2 to d1?
>>>>>
>>>>>After Kd1 Bc5 the move Nf2+ is a threat.
>>>>>After Kd2 Bc5 Nf2 is not a problem.
>>>>
>>>>After Kd1 Bc5 white can play Rf1 followed by h3
>>>
>>>You are right
>>>
>>>Movei also does not understand the problem with Kd1
>>>
>>>it wants to play Kd1 at depth 12 with evaluation of 0.50 for white.
>>>
>>>Maybe Junior wanted to protect the knight at c3 with the king because
>>>the main line of Movei is Kd1 Bd4 Rf1 Bxc3 bxc3 and 2 pawns at c2 and c3 are not
>>>good for white pawn structure but I still think that a king at c3 is a bigger
>>>problem.
>>>
>>>12 50 170379 252916839 e1d1 f2d4 h1f1 d4c3 b2c3 f8e8 h2h3 g4f6 c1e3 c8d7 e2b2
>>>d7a4 d1e1 b7b6
>>>12 50 172900 256523400 e1d1 f2d4 h1f1 d4c3 b2c3 f8e8 h2h3 g4f6 c1e3 c8d7 e2b2
>>>d7a4 d1e1 b7b6
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>Note that if white is afraid about pawn structure then it can choose Kd1 Bd4 Kc2
>>Bxc3 Kxc3 based on movei's analysis
>>
>>13 40 288903 425006195 e1d1 f2d4 d1c2 d4c3 c2c3 d8e7 c3c2 g4f6 c1d2 b8a6 d2c3
>>c8g4 c3e5 e7e5 f3e5 g4e2 d3e2 f6e4
>>
>>Uri
>
>Don't waste you time with computer analysis, in such positions humans can play
>far better than computers ;-)

You are speaking to a national correspondence champion who uses computers to
analyze positions.  Or is the smiley an indication that you already know that.



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