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Subject: Re: Dortmund === Topalov-Bareev [The combination that won the tiebreak]

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:03:16 07/18/02

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On July 18, 2002 at 15:02:12, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 18, 2002 at 14:07:24, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote:
>
>>       Topalov-Bareev,Dortmund,July 2002
>> Source ==> http://www.chessbase.com/events/events.asp?pid=164
>>     [D]r6r/k4pp1/pq2p2p/1p1n4/3N3P/1R6/PPP1QPP1/2KR4 w
>>     23. Nxb5+! axb5 24. Rxb5 Qc6 25. Rdxd5 exd5 26. Qe7+ Ka6 28. Rb3 1-0
>
>
>It is a one minute combination for Crafty.  I assume others will probably
>find this _far_ faster...
>
>         (2)   10    38.35   1.14   1. Qe5 g6 2. Rf3 Rh7 3. Qe4 Re8 4.
>                                    Rb3 f5 5. Qd3 Kb8
>               10    59.44     ++   1. Nxb5+!!
>               10     1:02   3.05   1. Nxb5+ axb5 2. Rxb5 Qd6 3. Rd4 Nc3
>                                    4. Qd2 Qc7 5. Qxc3 Qxc3 6. Ra4+ Qa5
>                                    7. Rbxa5+
>         (4)   10->   1:02   3.05   1. Nxb5+ axb5 2. Rxb5 Qd6 3. Rd4 Nc3
>                                    4. Qd2 Qc7 5. Qxc3 Qxc3 6. Ra4+ Qa5
>                                    7. Rbxa5+
>               11     1:03     ++   1. Nxb5+!!
>         (3)   11     1:09   4.20   1. Nxb5+ axb5 2. Rxb5 Qd6 3. Rd4 Nc3
>                                    4. Ra5+ Kb7 5. bxc3 Qxd4 6. Qf3+ Qd5
>                                    7. Qxf7+ Kc6 8. Rxd5 exd5 9. Qxg7
>               11->   1:11   4.20   1. Nxb5+ axb5 2. Rxb5 Qd6 3. Rd4 Nc3
>                                    4. Ra5+ Kb7 5. bxc3 Qxd4 6. Qf3+ Qd5
>                                    7. Qxf7+ Kc6 8. Rxd5 exd5 9. Qxg7
>               12     1:17     ++   1. Nxb5+!!


That was on a quad 400, the quad 700 was analyzing the current Topolov game
in real-time on ICC.  It is about 2x faster than the 400 so this should be maybe
a 30 second position then...



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