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Subject: Re: Serious blunder by Junior 8 or excellent attack by CM? You decide.

Author: John Merlino

Date: 21:33:57 08/02/03

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On August 02, 2003 at 22:05:27, Anson T J wrote:

>[d]2r2rk1/p3ppbp/6p1/8/8/QPqBBP2/P1P3PP/2KR3R w - - 0 20
>
>Junior 8 played 20. Bf2
>=  (0.00)  Depth: 16   0:03:29
>
>
>The King 3.23 SKR then played
>20... Rfd8!
>-+  (-8.87)  Depth: 13   0:10:47
>
>and won.
>
>Does any other engine also want to play 20. Bf2 ? I'm not sure if White's
>position lost before move 20. or if it was a blunder on move 20. that cost
>Junior the game.
>
>Please post your evals and comments:

Chessmaster 9000 (default personality), after a reasonably long search on a
P4-2.4G, seems to think that White's best chance is Qa4, with only a slight eval
advantage to Black (-0.18). After 20.Bf2, a 1-minute search gives an eval of
-1.37 for 20...Rfd8.

But my vote is for "excellent attack by CM", starting with 18...Qc3!! How many
engines would not play this move and not gxf5?

[D]1r3rk1/p3ppbp/2q3p1/5B2/8/QP2BP2/P1P3PP/2KR3R b - - 0 18

Majestic Chess, for example, needs 18 seconds on my P4-2.4 to find Qc3....

jm



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