Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 00:21:22 03/23/03
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On March 22, 2003 at 18:57:15, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>I was setting different positions found in the book { The Most Instructive Games
>of Chess Ever Played) by Irving Chernev. We all know that these 62 Masterpieces
>of Chess Strategy were played by Humans, but after testing different positions,
>I found out that most of them were solved by today's top programs. It is about
>time for somebody to collect at least 50 great games played by top computer
>programs and publish it. Anyway, here is an interesting
>position played by Smyslov vs Reshevsky Moscow 1948.
>
>How many programs besides Fritz 8 and Shredder 7 play the correct move 26.Qh4!
>Quoted by Chernev as a Clever play! The idea is to force an exchange which rid
>the board of Black's Queen, the only defender of the Queen Pawn. There is no way
>to save the pawn, since 26...Qd7 is answered by Qd8+, and if QxQ 27. PxQ and the
>d6 pawn is beyond help.
>
>
>[D]rn5k/1p2q1p1/pB1pp2p/4p3/4P1Q1/2P3P1/PP3P1P/3R2K1 w - - 0 1
AnMon 5.21 [P4 1.8/32 MB hash] is considering the best move 1.Qh4 for a long
time but with a wrong continuation in mind. And for some time I saw the
variation 1.Qh4 Qd7 2.Rxd6??. But AnMon 5.21 eventually switches to 1.Qf3.
Kurt
Neue Partie
rn5k/1p2q1p1/pB1pp2p/4p3/4P1Q1/2P3P1/PP3P1P/3R2K1 w - - 0 1
Analysis by AnMon5.21:
1.c4
± (0.94) Depth: 1 00:00:00
± (0.94) Depth: 1 00:00:00
1.Qg6 Nd7 2.Be3 Nf6
± (0.98) Depth: 1 00:00:00
² (0.58) Depth: 4 00:00:00
1.c4 Nd7 2.Be3 Nf6
² (0.61) Depth: 4 00:00:00
² (0.62) Depth: 4 00:00:00
1.Qh4 Qd7 2.Qh5 Kh7 3.Bc5 d5 4.exd5 Qc7
² (0.69) Depth: 4 00:00:00
± (1.38) Depth: 14 00:05:58 100157kN
1.Qf3 Nc6 2.Qd3 a5 3.Qxd6 Qf8
± (1.39) Depth: 14 00:11:43 196169kN
± (1.39) Depth: 14 00:11:43 196169kN
(Utzinger, MyTown 23.03.2003)
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