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Subject: Re: Rook Exchange Is it good or not?

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 16:34:37 11/05/02

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On November 05, 2002 at 19:13:52, Mustafa wrote:

>here is the position black played totally a move which shocked me with Be2
>allowing Rxe1 and later win for white can someone tell me was it really good
>that black did the rook exchange or not.....
>
>[D]8/5ppk/7p/3N4/1p3PP1/1P3K1P/8/R1b1r3 b - - 0 46
>
>the whole game is here
>[Event "Tigers"]
>[Site "PIII 1GHz 384MB"]
>[Date "2002.11.04"]
>[Round "4.9"]
>[White "X"]
>[Black "Y"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[ECO "C92"]
>[Annotator ",Comp"]
>[PlyCount "130"]
>[EventDate "2002.??.??"]
>[TimeControl "300"]
>
>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3
>O-O 9. h3 Bb7 10. d4 Re8 11. Nbd2 Bf8 12. a4 h6 13. Bc2 Qd7 14. b3 exd4 15.
>cxd4 Nb4 16. Bb1 bxa4 17. Rxa4 c5 18. dxc5 dxc5 19. e5 Nfd5 20. Nc4 Qe6 21. Bd2
>Red8 22. Qe2 Nb6 23. Nxb6 Qxb6 24. Be4 Bxe4 25. Qxe4 Qe6 26. Bxb4 cxb4 27. Nd4
>Qd5 28. Qxd5 Rxd5 29. Nc6 a5 30. Rea1 Rc8 31. Nxa5 Rxe5 32. Nc4 Ree8 33. Ra5
>Bc5 34. Kf1 Red8 35. Rc1 Be7 36. Ke2 Bf6 37. Rd1 Rxd1 38. Kxd1 Bd4 39. Ke2 Rc6
>40. f4 Bc3 41. Kf3 Kh7 42. g4 Re6 43. Ne3 Bd2 44. Nd5 Re1 45. Ra2 Bc1 46. Ra1
>Bd2 47. Rxe1 Bxe1 48. f5 h5 49. Ke2 Bg3 50. Nxb4 Kh6 51. Kf3 Bd6 52. Nd5 g6 53.
>fxg6 hxg4+ 54. Kxg4 Kxg6 55. b4 f5+ 56. Kf3 Kf7 57. b5 Ke6 58. Nf4+ Kd7 59. h4
>Ke7 60. h5 Kf7 61. b6 Kf6 62. h6 Kf7 63. Ng2 Kg6 64. Nh4+ Kf6 65. h7 {
>[%emt 0:00:04]} Kg7 1-0

>
>
>now i want ur dicisions was it a good exchange or not.......


Without checking the move using a chess engine, I [USCF 1856] find 48.Ke2 to be
more appealing.

Bob D.



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