Author: Howard Exner
Date: 00:30:50 08/31/98
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On August 30, 1998 at 17:57:36, blass uri wrote: > >On August 30, 1998 at 16:43:31, Amir Ban wrote: > >> >>I noted that several people here thought 25...Bh8 to be the losing move. Neither >>we nor the GM thought so during the game. Indeed, Bxf4, which was almost played >>by Junior was the real loser. Shay commented while waiting for this move that if >>it is played, we may as well resign and go to bed. > >Junior5 wanted to do Bxf4 after some hours on my pentium200MMX >with an evaluation of small advantage for white(after a long time but less than >half an hour I saw that it wanted to play Bh8) > >I think it is too early to resign after Bxf4(maybe Junior has a mistake in the >evaluation and black is losing but you cannot be sure about it in the game). I'm with Uri on this one as I can't see how white can muster up an attack on the black squares. This sequence looks reasonable for black: 25. ... Bxf4 26. Rxf4 Qd6 27. Rf3 Kf8, with the idea of placing the King on g7 and leaving the option of swinging the rook back via h8. Yet there could be some forcing line here for white as I think its position is favourable Yudasin's move of 25. Bf4 contains some punch to it (is in the greed line where black captures the a2 pawn, posted here prevuosly). His honesty in sharing that playing Junior offered a worthy challenge is refreshing. Your description is one of a highly concentrated effort by a strong GM. For GM's to win seems no longer a stroll in the park. >> Yudasin agreed. Without the >>dark-squares bishop black is lost. Is there a concrete line here to demonstrate this? I'm not sure this general principle applys to this particular position. But if you mean that computers may stumble after the bishop exchange then I may agree with that as some programs may not chose to centralize the Queen to d6 and to seek a safe haven for the king on g7.
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