Author: blass uri
Date: 09:30:40 08/14/98
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On August 14, 1998 at 11:22:26, Fernando Villegas wrote: >White: Ivan Morovic (2600+) >Tiger 11,5 (running in a MMX 200 Mhz) >40 moves/one hour >Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz defense >1.- e2-e4 e7-e5 >2. Ng1-f3 Nb8-c6 >3. Bf1-b5 d7-d6 >4. d2-d4 Bc8-d7 >5. Nb1-c3 Ng8-f6 >6. O-O Bf8-e7 >7. Rf1-e1 e5xd4 >8. Nf3xd4 O-O >9. Nd4xc6 b7xc6 >10. Bb5-a4 Nf6-g4 >11. Nc3-e2 Be7-h4 > >At this stage of the game my friend and I thought Ivan was not getting the best >from the opening. The Night in g4 is a pain in the ass and now the arrival of >the bishop coerce Ivan to unpleasant moves of his pawns >12. g2-g3 Bh4-f6 >13. Ne2-f4 ... >In the post mortem Ivan explained us that he was worried by the hole in f3 if >the black night arrived sooner or later to e5 >13 .......Rf8-e8 >14. c2-c3 >Probably the only one in this ugly position. >14...... Ng4-e5 >15. f2-f3 Ra8-b8 >Spectators were amazed to see how bad Ivan position seemed to be. The dangerous >holes in the king side, the probable arrival of the queen bishop at h3, etc. We >begun to expect a catastrophe. > >16. Nf4-d3 d6-d5 >17. Nd3xe5 Bf6xe5 >18. Ba4-c2 h7-h6 ?! > My friend and I -the “spectators”- took a full minute to understand that Tiger >was not just doing an unnecesacry move. It was a trap!! Suddenly we saw that if >White played pxp, pxp and then Qxp, it followed Bd4+!! and the white house fall >in pieces. If Kf1, Bh3++; if QxB, RxR+, etc. >Nevertheless, the most amazing thing of all was to lesson the analysis of Ivan >in the post mortem. He not only saw that threat, he told us, in a split of a >second where we, spectators of expert o near master force, took half a minute, >but, what is more, he saw the “others” traps Tiger was putting if White played >the natural Rb1 for playing in the next the also natural Be3. Flashing his >fingers over the board Ivan showed us no less that five variation with all kind >of tactical tricks after pxp and then Bxcp !!, after whose completion Tiger >would win a full pawn. I have never seen before a more clear demonstration of >the huge abysm between even strong amateur players -as my friend is- and a real >GM. No matter how much you see, they always see ten times more than you... > >19. Kg1-g2 Bd7-e6 >The first great mistake of Tiger, said Ivan >20. f3-f4 Be5-d6 >21. e4-e5 Bd6-c5 >The second great mistake. How much time does chesstiger need in order not to do these mistakes? >He told me next Thursday we can repeat the >experiment with the program I choose and this time I am going to pit him >against Junior 4,6. I hope that flat he is looking for will appear after all... >fernando I hope it will be Junior5 Uri
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