Author: Amir Ban
Date: 06:11:36 09/24/98
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On September 24, 1998 at 08:35:36, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On September 24, 1998 at 03:07:41, Dirk Frickenschmidt wrote: > >>Hi all of you, >> >>finally I can return to playing tournament testgames (on two 200MMX machinces >>with 64Mb each). >> >>Although Junior's first game against Fritz5 became a draw, it was a long >>positional and tactical struggle. >> >>In this Meran variation of the Semi-Slav black has the pair of bishops and >>considerable pressure on the white queenside, while having to handle pawn >>weaknesses around its king with active play, thus preventing a direct white >>attack against the black king. Nvertheless white has to try to exploit the black >>weaknesses, while defending the queenside as long as possible not to suffer from >>a bad endgame. >> >>The black variation is 9... c5 is a typical choice by GM Sveshnikov, who has >>been using it successfully since 1977 and scored only wins and draws while using >>it for black. >> >>Both programs managed to balance attack and defence jobs very well, and white >>was gaining some positional advantage during the middlegame. But after the black >>35....Rxg3 (a move both programs "understood") Junior5 got king weaknesses >>itself and was not able to gain a decisive advantage in the end. > >This was a very interesting game to me. When I played over it without a >computer crunching on the positions, I thought Black's position was better from >around 21...c4 through the 35...Rxg3 period. I went back to read your message a >second time, thinking that I had misread your comments the first time around. >But no, you said that White had been gaining some positional advantage. I then >booted up crafty, and it thinks that White's position is pretty good after >21...c4 (we're talking almost a pawn plus). Are there any programs that agree >with me? Should they? Maybe I am just completely misevaluating the position? >I thought that the space advantage was worth a lot, White's rooks were passive, >and while Black's kingside weakness would probably prevent a win, Black still >had all the play. Probably that last bit is overly brash, but I am having a >hard time believing that White's position is actually better! > >Dave Gomboc > It was a typical Junior - Fritz disagreement about king-safety and space issues. Fritz evaluates them more aggressively and gets excellent results from this. I think in some positions it over-evaluates, but it's a gamble, just like accepting a gambit, and you need to be tactically competent to survive in such positions. Amir
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