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Subject: Re: Help with this interesting position?

Author: blass uri

Date: 10:47:22 11/06/98

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On November 06, 1998 at 01:43:43, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On November 06, 1998 at 00:26:37, James Robertson wrote:
>
>>The following position was reachied in a blitz game between Exchess 2.49 and
>>SSEChess 2.01:
>>
>>4rrk1/ppp2pp1/2qp3p/2n5/2P1PQ1B/3P4/P1P3PP/R4RK1 w - -
>>
>>Exchess played Qf2 and won about 30 moves later, but I thought that maybe Bf6
>>would be an irresistible sacrifice for a computer program.
>>
>>After 1. Bf6 gxf6 2. Qxh6, I don't see any way Black can win:
>>
>>2. ... Nd5 3. Rf3 Ng5 4. Rg3 d5 5. h4 Qd6 6. Kh2 Qe5 7. hxg6 fxg6 8. Qxg6+ Qxg6
>>9. Rxg6+ Kh7 10. cxd5 (evaluated -2.15 for Black by Crafty)
>>
>>2. ... Nd7 3. Rf3 (And Black can't stop Rg3)
>
>I ran Crafty on it.  Here's what I got after 1.Bf6 gxf6 2.Qxh6:
>
>2. ... Ne6 3. Rab1 Qc5+ 4. Rf2 Nd4 5. Rxb7 Rb8 6. Rxb8 Rxb8 7. g4 Qg5 8. Qh3
>Rb1+ 9. Kg2 Rb2 (Eval: -1.6 for white)

3.Rab1 is  not good and Junior5 prefered 3.Rf3 with the idea to play after
3...Ng5 4.Kh1
I think that 2...Ne6 is not good and 2...Nxe4(Junior5's move) is better and
after it 3.dxe4 Qc5+ Kh1 Qg5 is one option.

Uri






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