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Subject: Re: Sjeng - Quest. Quest is winning.

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 04:26:26 11/23/03

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On November 23, 2003 at 06:01:01, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>The game is not end yet, but see this move by Quest: 43...Kd6  How brave is
>todays computers. Quest puts his king in fire, but it doesn't care, it
>calculated already a win.


 Yes, this is a very interesting game - where Fritz launched the novelty (?)
 17.-Qb6!? in Najdorf. I have only seen this move as a comment in a corrgame
 by Hector. Haven't checked all games played this year though. Very alert from
 the people responsible for the Fritz-book. (If this was a book move.)

 /S







>
>[D]Q7/4kpb1/2N1p3/4p3/8/7P/1r4r1/K1Nn4 b - - 0 43
>
>    [Event "World Computer Chess Championship"]
>    [Site "Graz, Austria"]
>    [Date "2003.11.23"]
>    [Round "2"]
>    [White "Sjeng(C)"]
>    [Black "Quest(C)"]
>    [Result "*"]
>    [ICCResult "Game in progress"]
>    [Opening "Sicilian: Najdorf, 7...Be7 main line"]
>    [ECO "B99"]
>    [NIC "SI.09"]
>    [Time "03:45:56"]
>    [TimeControl "7200+0"]
>
>    1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Be7 8.
>    Qf3 Qc7 9. O-O-O Nbd7 10. g4 b5 11. Bxf6 Nxf6 12. g5 Nd7 13. f5 Nc5 14. f6
>    gxf6 15. gxf6 Bf8 16. Rg1 h5 17. a3 Qb6 18. Be2 b4 19. axb4 Qxb4 20. Na2 Qb6
>    21. c3 Rb8 22. b4 Bd7 23. Kb1 a5 24. Rge1 axb4 25. cxb4 Ba4 26. Rd2 Nd7 27.
>    Bd1 Bxd1 28. Rexd1 Rh6 29. Rc2 Rxf6 30. Qxh5 Ne5 31. Qh3 Bg7 32. Qe3 Rg6 33.
>    h3 Nd7 34. Re2 Qa6 35. Rb2 Ne5 36. b5 Nc4 37. bxa6 Rxb2+ 38. Ka1 Rgg2 39.
>    Nc1 Nxe3 40. a7 Nxd1 41. a8=Q+ Ke7 42. e5 dxe5 43. Nc6+ Kd6 44. Qd8+ Kxc6



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