Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 13:56:45 08/20/03
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On August 20, 2003 at 15:53:13, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>The following position is from a game between Capablanca and Bernstein
>from Chessmaster's library.
>
>In the annotation says after the move 25...Rh8 :
>"Other moves are no better. Two variations given by Capablanca are 25...g5 26.e5
>f6 27.Qd3, and 25...g6 26.Qxh6+ Kg8 27.e5 gxh5 28.gxh5, and there is no answer
>to the threat of Re1-e2-g2+."
>
>But Deep Junior 8/Shredder 7.04/Fritz 8 prefer 25...Rg8 with a
>score ~ -1.00 for black.
>Who is wrong? Capablanca and the annotator who believe there is no
>defence, or the todays top programs who found Rg8 and believe black
>is better?
>
>[D]4rr2/p1pb1ppk/2ppn2p/5N1N/4P1P1/1P2QP2/1q5P/2R1R1K1 b - - 0 25
Hi George
Most interesting: I have made a note in the book to the move 25...Rh8
that I could not find a win after 25...Rg8, and this was 20 years ago.
Kurt
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