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Subject: Re: DJ sacrifice (Crafty vs Crafty )

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 23:40:26 02/05/03

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On February 06, 2003 at 01:54:19, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On February 06, 2003 at 01:30:13, J Mike wrote:
>
>>
>>I made the moves 16. g3 Qh2 17. f5 h5 and played Crafty vs Crafty (time control
>>40 moves in 40 minutes)
>>
>>the final position after move 67 is probably a draw.
>
>Move 4.e3 i would argue.
>
>>Even if the sacrifice was unsafe (as it probably was), I don't think it would
>>have been easy for Kasparov to win the game if he had played 16. g3 .. he could
>
>g3 is a silly attempt. Take the draw. much easier. g3 will never win for white
>of course. this is trivial to see for even a FM. What the hell did you guys do
>at icc?
>
>>have even lost it, given he had less than an hour on the clock and it was only
>>move 16.
>>
>>Everyone was shocked on ICC that Kasparov didn't try to win with g3, but now I
>
>that's of course people just watching the beancounters at their programs.
>g3 ain't gonna win at all for white. instead you have a long game where black
>wins in the end. the analysis i saw so far get already wiped away by a 12 ply
>search of DIEP here.
>
>>think he probably made the right decision!  This position is not as easy as it
>>looked earlier.
>
>kasparov begged for a draw with his setup. if he had just 5 braincells that
>wanted to win from junior he would know that this openingsline is a bad choice
>because it gives black greatly the opportunity to attack at the king side. Now
>we all know from world champs where junior joins that the program is always
>attacking the king side of the opponent. Good or bad.
>
>So kasparov in advance was playing for a draw. 1.d4 and 5.e3 what a joke again.
>this guy ain't playing serious against junior. kasparov became world champion
>with 1.e4 and black najdorf after 1.e4.

Kasparov became world champion with 1.e4 ??? rubbish
he played almost always 1.d4 in 1985.

>
>Now he plays openings where he is no better than any other 2550+ GM (fide
>rating). Combined with some commercial interests into kasparovchess.com (what's
>in a name?) and the junior team also linked to kasparovchess. Also in the sure
>knowing that next year he'll get another match against a computer and if that
>ain't junior he'll try go beat it.
>
>What do i need to say more.
>
>he isn't 2800+ in those lines. knowing his considerations and his mentality
>struggle he'll be more like 2450 there.
>
>>I think we can say DJ's Bxh2 was an amazing move. It was a real sacrifice for
>>initiative.  I don't think any other computer (or even older version of DJ)
>>would have played it ..
>>
>>
>>------------------------
>>
>>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. cxd5 exd5 7. Nge2 Re8 8.
>>O-O Bd6 9. a3 c6 10. Qc2 Bxh2+ 11. Kxh2 Ng4+ 12. Kg3 Qg5 13. f4 Qh5 14. Bd2
>>Qh2+ 15. Kf3 Qh4 16. g3 Qh2 17. f5 h5 18. b4 Nd7 19. e4 Qh3 20. Rh1 Nh2+ 21.
>>Rxh2 Qxh2 22. exd5 Nf6 23. Qd1 Qh3 24. Nf4 Qh2 25. Nfe2 Qh3 26. Nf4 Qh2 27.
>>dxc6 Ng4 28. Ng2 Qh3 29. Be2 bxc6 30. Qh1 Nh2+ 31. Kf2 Bxf5 32. Nf4 Ng4+ 33.
>>Bxg4 Qxh1 34. Rxh1 hxg4 35. d5 Rac8 36. Rh5 g6 37. Rh1 f6 38. Be3 g5 39. Nfe2
>>cxd5 40. Bxa7 Be4 41. Nxe4 Rxe4 42. Bc5 Rc4 43. a4 Rc2 44. a5 Ra2 45. Re1 Kf7
>>46. Kf1 Rh8 47. Nc3 Rh1+ 48. Bg1 Ra3 49. Ne2 Ra4 50. Rb1 Rh8 51. Nc3 Ra3 52.
>>Nxd5 Rh3 53. b5 Rxa5 54. Kg2 f5 55. Bf2 f4 56. Nc3 f3+ 57. Kg1 Ra8 58. b6 Rah8
>>59. Kf1 Rh1+ 60. Bg1 R8h2 61. b7 Rg2 62. Ne2 Rh8 63. Bd4 Rhh2 64. Ng1 f2 65.
>>Ne2 Rh1+ 66. Kxg2 Rxb1 67. Kxf2 Kg6 (result?)



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