Author: martin fierz
Date: 14:19:21 12/19/03
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On December 19, 2003 at 16:36:54, George Sobala wrote: >Nxf8 was played in one correspondence game, and White won. > >[Event "corr."] >[Site "Finland"] >[Date "1986"] >[Round ""] >[White "Plank Gosta"] >[Black "Viinikka Yrjo"] >[Result "1-0"] >[Eco "C34"] >[Annotator ""] >[Source ""] > >1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4 h6 5.d4 g5 6.O-O Bg7 7.c3 Nf6 >8.e5 dxe5 9.Qb3 O-O 10.Nxe5 Qe8 11.Ng6 b5 12.Bxb5 Qe4 13.Nxf8 >Bb7 14.Rf2 Ng4 15.Re2 Bxd4+ 16.cxd4 Qxd4+ 17.Kf1 Nxh2+ 18.Ke1 >f3 19.Be3 Qd6 20.Rf2 g4 21.Nd2 Nc6 22.Ne4 Qxf8 23.Nf6+ Kg7 24.Nh5+ >Kg8 25.g3 1-0 oh, i don't have that game in megabase 2003. where do you have it from, megacorr? as you can see, the fritz/me combination suggests 18...Qg1+ 19.Kd2 f3 as an improvement over this game. fritz assesses the position at that point (after 19....f3) as slightly favorable for white after a few minutes thought on my P4 1.4GHz (+0.88), but given white's huge material advantage, that just means it's completely unclear. and when you play out the moves given in my post, the score just keeps dropping from white's point of view. of course, in 1986 they didn't have fritz 7 :-) anyway, it's certainly not a blunder in NCO, but just one of those positions that are too deep for the beasts. cheers martin
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