Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:17:19 10/24/02
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Here is a game where Kramnik played black, and he made the same sort of
sacrifice he made against Deep Fritz, but he made it against Anand, and he
got rapped for it. Crafty says this just drops a piece. I ran the position
after
Bxf2 to a pretty deep depth and the score didn't change as I even followed the
game for a move or two deeper. If you let Crafty search for a black move
there, it likes either the rook move as suggested in the annotation, or Nd8
if you let it search longer than one second... Score after Bxf2 is +3.5, score
after Nd8 is +.5.
That seems to qualify as either a blunder or unsound sac... your choice. Here
is the relevant PGN:
[Event "1998.10.23"]
[Site "Tilburg"]
[Date "1998.11.10"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[WhiteElo "2795"]
[Black "Kramnik"]
[BlackElo "2780"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "Crafty v19.1"]
{annotating for player Kramnik}
{using a scoring margin of +1.00 pawns.}
{search time limit is 1.00}
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nf6
3. Nxe5 d6
4. Nf3 Nxe4
5. d4 d5
6. Bd3 Nc6
7. O-O Be7
8. Re1 Bg4
9. c3 f5
10. Qb3 O-O
11. Nbd2 Na5
12. Qa4 Nc6
13. Bb5 Nxd2
14. Nxd2 Qd6
15. h3 Bh5
16. Nb3 Bh4
17. Nc5 Bxf2+
({7:+3.33} 17. ... Bxf2+ 18. Kxf2 Nd8 19. Kg1 c6 20. Bd3 b6 21.
Nb3 $18)
({7:+0.15} 17. ... Rfe8 18. Bd2 a6 19. Rxe8+ Rxe8 20. Bxc6 bxc6
21. Qxa6 Re2 $10)
18. Kxf2 Qh2
({8:+4.91} 18. ... Qh2 19. Bxc6 bxc6 20. Qxc6 Qd6 21. Qxd6 cxd6
22. Ne6 Rfe8 $18)
({8:+3.61} 18. ... Nd8 19. Qc2 Bg6 20. Nd7 a6 21. Nxf8 axb5 22.
Nxg6 Qxg6 $18)
19. Bxc6 bxc6
20. Qxc6 f4
21. Qxd5+ Kh8
22. Qxh5 f3
23. Qxf3 Rxf3+
24. Kxf3 Rf8+
25. Ke2 Qxg2+
26. Kd3 Qxh3+
27. Kc2 Qg2+
28. Bd2 Qg6+
29. Re4 h5
30. Re1 Re8
31. Kc1 Rxe4
32. Nxe4 h4
33. Ng5 Qh5
34. Re3 Kg8
35. c4
1-0
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