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Subject: Re: Spasski - Tal 1973 Beautiful move ...

Author: John Merlino

Date: 08:26:09 01/03/03

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On January 03, 2003 at 00:36:31, Mike Byrne wrote:

>but so easy for today's computers ....
>
>[d] 6k1/1br3p1/4p2p/2b3q1/8/1Q4P1/P1R2P1P/2R3K1 b - - 0 29 ;bm 29... Bxf2+
>
>This game was voted 6th Best of Chess Informant Volumes 1 through 64.
>
>
>
>Spassky,B - Tal,M [E30]
>Informant 15/518, 1973
>
>
>1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Bg5 h6 5.Bh4 c5 6.d5 b5 7.dxe6 fxe6 8.cxb5 d5 9.e3
>0-0 10.Nf3 Qa5 11.Bxf6 Rxf6 12.Qd2 a6 13.bxa6 Nc6 14.Be2 d4 15.exd4 Rxf3 16.Bxf3
>cxd4 17.0-0 dxc3 18.bxc3 Bxc3 19.Qd6 Rxa6 20.Bxc6 Bb4 21.Qb8 Rxc6 22.Rac1 Bc5
>23.Rc2 Qa4 24.Qb3 Qf4 25.Qg3 Qf5 26.Rfc1 Bb7 27.Qf3 Qg5 28.Qb3 Rc7 29.g3 Bxf2+
>30.Kxf2 Qf6+ 31.Ke1 Qe5+ 32.Kf1 Ba6+ 33.Kg1 Qd4+ 34.Kg2 Qe4+ 35.Kg1 Bb7 36.h4
>Qh1+ 37.Kf2 Rf7+ 38.Ke2 Qe4+ 0-1
>
>On my machine almost all programs found this in 30 seconds or less, with maybe
>Fritz 8 and Chess Tiger being the fastest in 1 or 2 seconds.  Chess Tiger
>probably gave the best assessment the quickest - which is white is dead lost.

Chessmaster 9000, on a P3-733, finds it in eleven seconds, although the eval
strongly favors Black from the outset:

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
0:00	1/3	1.34	2131		29...Qf5 30.Rxc5 Rxc5 31.Rxc5 Qxc5
					32.Qxb7
0:00	1/3	-0.96	2464		29...Qe5 30.Qd3 Rc8 31.Qd7
0:00	1/3	-1.20	9339		29...Qf6 30.Re1 Rf7
0:00	1/4	-1.35	12869		29...Qf6 30.Kf1 Bd4 31.f4
0:00	1/5	-1.36	36588		29...Qf6 30.Rf1 Qe5 31.Qd3 Bd5
					32.a4
0:02	1/6	-1.62	113779		29...Qf6 30.Rd1 Rf7 31.Qb2 Qf3
					32.Rd8+ Kh7
0:03	1/7	-1.41	239217		29...Qf6 30.Rf1 Bd5 31.Qd3 Qf8
					32.a4 Qa8 33.Rfc1
0:06	1/8	-1.52	551667		29...Qf6 30.Rf1 Qf5 31.Re2 Kh7
					32.Rfe1 Bd5 33.Qb1
0:11	1/8	-3.99	991074		29...Bxf2+ 30.Kxf2 Qf5+ 31.Kg1
					Qe4 32.Qxe6+ Qxe6 33.Rxc7 Qe3+
					34.Kf1 Qf3+ 35.Ke1 Qh1+ 36.Kd2
					Qxh2+ 37.Ke3 Qxg3+ 38.Kd4
0:18	1/9	-4.21	1678103		29...Bxf2+ 30.Kxf2 Qf5+ 31.Kg1
					Qe4 32.Qxe6+ Qxe6 33.Rxc7 Qe3+
					34.Kf1 Qf3+ 35.Ke1 Qh1+ 36.Kd2
					Qxh2+ 37.Ke3 Qxg3+ 38.Kd2 Qf4+
					39.Kd1
0:33	2/10	-4.09	3505321		29...Bxf2+ 30.Kxf2 Qf5+ 31.Kg1
					Qe4 32.Qxe6+ Qxe6 33.Rxc7 Qe3+
					34.Kf1 Qf3+ 35.Ke1 Qh1+ 36.Kd2
					Qxh2+ 37.Kc3 Qxg3+ 38.Kb4 Qd6+
					39.R1c5 Qd4+ 40.Kb5
1:38	3/11	-4.14	10997031	29...Bxf2+ 30.Kxf2 Qf5+ 31.Kg1
					Qe4 32.Qxe6+ Qxe6 33.Rxc7 Qe3+
					34.Kf1 Qf3+ 35.Ke1 Qh1+ 36.Kd2
					Qxh2+ 37.Kc3 Qxg3+ 38.Kb2 Bd5 39.Rd7


jm



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