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Subject: Re: Why did Alekhine considered this game as one of his best ever ?

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 07:53:38 04/05/03

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On April 05, 2003 at 10:30:03, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On April 05, 2003 at 09:41:33, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>This position taken from a game considered by Alekhine to be one of his best two
>>games ever played.
>>
>>Baden-Baden Tournament, May 1925.
>>
>>White: R. Reti Black Alekhine:
>>
>>In this position Alekhine wrote " It seems almost incredible that this
>>spectacular move not only stops White's attack but even brings him serious
>>trouble". The only reason why Reti got into trouble was because he chose 27.
>>Kt-B3?! Instead of the better move chosen by Fritz 8 27. bxc6! this is what
>>Alekhine wrote " It is obvious enough that the Rook can't be taken because of
>>27....QxP+. followed by 28.....KtxP and wins.
>>
>>The move found by Alekhine 26....R-K6! is a great challenge for most top
>>programs, since I have NOT found any programs that will select this move.
>>
>>[D]r3r1k1/1pq2pp1/2p2n2/1PNn4/2QN2b1/6P1/3RPP2/2R3KB b - - 0 1
>>
>>This is what Fritz 8 plays after:


1... Re6 2. bxc6 Re5 {[%emt 0:03:03]} 3. cxb7 {[%emt 0:01:40]} Rb8 {
[%emt 0:02:53]} 4. Ndb3 {[%emt 0:02:04]} Rxb7 {[%emt 0:04:25]} 5. Bxd5 {
[%emt 0:00:51]} Rb6 {(Rb8) [%emt 0:02:59]} 6. Bg2 {[%emt 0:02:29]} Re8 {
[%emt 0:04:54]} 7. Nd4 {(e4) [%emt 0:02:59]} Qe5 {[%emt 0:04:05]} 8. Qa4 {
[%emt 0:04:10]} Qb8 {(Qh5) [%emt 0:04:07]} 9. Nc6 {[%emt 0:02:51]} Rb1 {
[%emt 0:03:22]} 10. Nxb8 {[%emt 0:02:11]} Rxc1+ {[%emt 0:00:29]} 11. Rd1 {
[%emt 0:02:36]} Rxc5 {[%emt 0:01:02]} 12. Na6 {[%emt 0:02:11]} Rc3 {
[%emt 0:01:53]} 13. f3 {[%emt 0:02:25]} Be6 {[%emt 0:01:47]} 14. Qa5 {
[%emt 0:02:55]} *

And here is the Position after 14 more moves, White is obviously winning:

[d}4r1k1/5pp1/N3bn2/Q7/8/2r2PP1/4P1B1/3R2K1 b - - 0 14


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>>Here is the other brillian game considered by Alekhine to be his best two games
>>ever played.
>>
>>http://www.geocities.com/lifemasteraj/bogo-alek1.html
>
>Hi Jorge
>You have not tested enough programs with enough time. There are several engines
>to find the nice ... Re3 move. Junior7 and Gambit Tiger 2 belong to those
>programs which only need some seconds. The solving time of other engines can be
>found at http://www.computerschach.de/test/index.htm
>
>r3r1k1/1pq2pp1/2p2n2/1PNn4/2QN2b1/6P1/3RPP2/2R3KB b - - 0 1
>
>Analysis by Junior 7:
>
>1...cxb5 2.Nxb5 Qa5 3.Rxd5
>  ±  (0.84)   Depth: 3   00:00:00
>1...Ne3 2.Qd3 Ned5
>  ³  (-0.38)   Depth: 6   00:00:00  10kN
>  =  (0.00)   Depth: 9   00:00:00  191kN
>1...Bh3 2.bxc6 bxc6 3.Nxc6 Qxc6 4.Rxd5 Nxd5 5.Bxd5 Qf6 6.Ne4 Qf5 7.Bxa8 Rxa8
>  =  (-0.20)   Depth: 9   00:00:00  233kN
>  =  (0.20)   Depth: 12   00:00:02  2107kN
>1...Re3 2.Bf3 Bxf3 3.exf3 Rea3 4.Re2 Ra1 5.Ree1 Rxc1 6.Qxc1
>  =  (0.09)   Depth: 12   00:00:10  10268kN
>  =  (-0.15)   Depth: 14   00:00:32  32309kN
>
>(Utzinger, MyTown 05.04.2003)
>
>Reti - Aljechin
>r3r1k1/1pq2pp1/2p2n2/1PNn4/2QN2b1/6P1/3RPP2/2R3KB b - - 0 1
>
>Analysis by Gambit Tiger 2.0:
>
>1...Ra3 2.Rd3 Rxd3 3.Nxd3 Nb6 4.Qc2 Qd6 5.e3 cxb5 6.Nxb5 Qe7
>  ²  (0.28)   Depth: 7   00:00:00  135kN
>  ²  (0.34)   Depth: 9   00:00:04  1381kN
>1...Re3 2.Bf3 Bxf3 3.exf3 Rea3 4.bxc6 bxc6 5.Rb2 Nb6 6.Qe2 Re8 7.Qf1 Re5
>  =  (0.14)   Depth: 9   00:00:07  2270kN
>  =  (-0.06)   Depth: 12   00:00:36  11847kN
>
>(Utzinger, MyTown 05.04.2003)


What kind of Analysis did you run: Infinite Analysis, Full Analysis, or Deep
Position Analysis ?

Pichard







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