Author: Dirk Frickenschmidt
Date: 11:02:44 09/08/98
The series without Junior losses (only one draw so far) continues. I already was suspicious if Junior 5 was playing in the same yellow T-shirt or something, as some soccer trainers use to do sometimes within such series ;-) I decided not to post the two more wins from two engine-egnine games against Fritz, but will try to get two Fritz5-CDs instead, and then play standard autoplayer games, as Enrique suggested. Just for the record: both engine tournament games were Junior5 wins against Fritz5. We will see what the autoplayer outcome will be. So I first continued with Rebel 9. In the game below Rebel9 played it's Slav defence very well, finally reaching an endgame with one pawn up. I already was convinced that Junior would suffer its first loss against Rebel. Then something surprising happened in the endgame: Junior played the whole thing with one pawn down very clever: first making as much pressure as possible with two rooks, then exchanging one, with Junior's king centralized and a dangerous advanced pawn, finally having this single rapidly promoting pawn against three slow and weak Rebel pawns in the endgame. I judged the game as win for Junior after move 65; if anyone disagrees it will probably be easy to demonstrate the win: black cannot prevent to lose one remaining pawn after the other and then ist mated with king+rook against king. The phenomenon about Junior5 seems to be that it - in a way similar to what once Fischer as a human did - is extremely *versatile* in "fishing" for winning chances in all kinds of positions (from calm to agressive) and in all phases of the game (like Fischer, who was ready to begin a new effort for patient dominant play in the middlegame even if he got nothing from the opening or then again in the endgame, even if the middlegame had not been too sucessful; or the other way round was suddenly ready for a sharp attack, if the position did not give him enough from just calm solid play, thus again and again finding interesting resources in seemingly not too promising positions by digging deep). Junior5 - Rebel9 [D47] 40/120 [DF] 44032kB, jun-book.ctg=351287 pos 1.c4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nc3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.e4 b4 10.Na4 c5 11.e5 Nd5 12.dxc5 Qa5 aus dem Buch 13.0-0 Bxc5 14.Bd2 Be7 15.a3 0-0 16.Re1 Rfd8 17.b3 Qc7 18.Qb1 g6 19.axb4 Bxb4 20.Qb2 Bxd2 21.Qxd2 Ne7 22.Qg5 Bxf3 23.Qxe7 Bd5 24.b4 Rab8 25.Nc5 Rbc8 26.Bb1 Nxc5 27.Qxc7 Rxc7 28.bxc5 Bc4 29.Ra5 Rd5 30.Rc1 Rxe5 31.f4 Rd5 32.Kf2 Rd2+ 33.Ke3 Rb2 34.Rxc4 Rxb1 35.Rc2 Kg7 36.Ra6 Kf6 37.g3 g5 38.fxg5+ Kxg5 39.Kd4 Rd1+ 40.Ke3 Rd5 41.c6 f5 42.h3 e5 43.g4 fxg4 44.hxg4 Kxg4 45.Ke4 Rb5 46.Rg2+ Kh3 47.Rg5 Rc5 48.Ra1 Kh2 49.Ra2+ Kh3 50.Ra1 Kh4 51.Rg8 Rc3 52.Rh1+ Rh3 53.Rxh3+ Kxh3 54.Kd5 h5 55.Kd6 Rf7 56.c7 Rxc7 57.Kxc7 e4 58.Kd6 e3 59.Ke5 e2 60.Rg1 Kh2 61.Re1 Kg3 62.Rxe2 h4 63.Kf5 h3 64.Re3+ Kh4 65.Kf4 1-0 Kind regards from Dirk
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