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Subject: Re: Remarkable rook sac in Hansen-McShane, 2003

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 10:47:45 05/21/03

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On May 21, 2003 at 13:19:07, Albert Silver wrote:

>In the 11th Sigeman & Co. tournament where Ivanchuk took the laurels with 7/9,
>Curt Hansen played a fantastic attacking game to score a last-round win against
>Luke McShane. At move 27, he entered a line leaving him a clean rook down, and
>which the engines expect no more than a draw from. Maybe it is possible to save
>the game, but one must really take one's hat off to Hansen; Tal would have been
>proud.
>
>                                           Albert
>

This is of course well known theory and Fritz 8 finds 26.f4 immediately.
Therefore its home preparation and I can leave my head on.

Michael

[Event "URS-chT"]
[Site "Tbilisi"]
[Date "1951.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Bannik, Anatoly"]
[Black "Novotelnov, Nikolay Alexandrovi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D89"]
[WhiteElo "2530"]
[BlackElo "2484"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "1951.??.??"]
[Source ""]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 c5 7. Be3 Bg7 8.
Bc4 O-O 9. Ne2 cxd4 10. cxd4 Nc6 11. O-O Bg4 12. f3 Na5 13. Bd3 Be6 14. d5 Bxa1
15. Qxa1 f6 16. Bh6 Re8 17. Nf4 Bd7 18. e5 Rc8 19. Kh1 Nc4 20. e6 Ba4 21. Nxg6
hxg6 22. Bxg6 Ne5 23. Be4 Bc2 24. Bxc2 Rxc2 25. Qd1 Kh7 26. Qxc2+ Kxh6 27. f4
Ng6 28. Qf5 Rh8 29. g3 Qa5 30. Rd1 Qxa2 31. Qg4 Qc2 32. d6 Kg7 33. h4 f5 34.
Qf3 Nxh4 35. gxh4 Rxh4+ 36. Kg1 Qh2+ 37. Kf1 Rxf4 0-1














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>Hansen,C (2610) - McShane,L (2592) [D89]
>11th Sigeman & Co Malmoe SWE (9), 08.05.2003
>
>1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bc4 c5 8.Ne2 0-0
>9.0-0 Nc6 10.Be3 Bg4 11.f3 cxd4 12.cxd4 Na5 13.Bd3 Be6 14.d5 Bxa1 15.Qxa1 f6
>16.Bh6 Re8 17.Kh1 Rc8 18.Nf4 Bd7 19.e5 Nc4 20.e6 Ba4 21.Nxg6 hxg6 22.Bxg6 Ne5
>23.Be4 Bc2 24.Bxc2 Rxc2 25.Qd1 Kh7 26.f4 Kxh6 27.fxe5 Rc4 28.Qd3 b5 29.exf6 exf6
>30.d6 Kg7 31.Qg3+ Kh7 32.Qh3+ Kg7 33.Qg3+ Kh7 34.Qf3 Kg6 35.Qd5 Rh8 36.h3 a6
>37.Qd3+ Kg7 38.Qg3+ Kh7 39.Rf5 Qe8 40.Rxf6 Rg8 41.Qd3+ Kg7 42.Qf5 Rc5 43.Rf7+
>1-0



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