Author: Mark Rawlings
Date: 05:27:28 01/27/03
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On January 27, 2003 at 08:00:07, Mike Hood wrote: >Like many other spectators I was surprised by Deep Junior's 17th move. > >[D] r4rk1/pb1n1ppp/2qN4/4p1Pn/2p1P3/2Q1BN2/PP3P1P/2KR3R b - - 0 17 > >The quality sacrifice seems to achieve nothing. Chessbase's commentary on the >move is "Gives a rook for a knight in order to save the pawn on e5" and gives a >brief alternative line. I'm sure there is more to it than this. Could someone >please post an analysis of what would have happened if DJ had played other >moves, in particular Rab8? I don't see how Rab8 could have lead to anything >worse than what actually happened. I let Fritz 7 run overnight on this. Something over 11 billion nodes... [Fritz 7: 2...Rab8 3.Nxe5 Nxe5 4.Qxe5 Qa4 5.Qc3 Qxa2 6.Qa3 Qxa3 7.bxa3 Ba6 8.e5 Rb3 eval +1.21, 18 ply] Mark
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