Author: Peter Berger
Date: 14:05:02 01/01/04
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On January 01, 2004 at 16:57:10, Stephen Ham wrote: >On December 30, 2003 at 07:28:55, Lex Loep wrote: > >>Perhaps a bit late but still nice reading, article by Gian-Carlo Pascutto. >> >>http://www.lokasoft.nl/deep_sjeng_in_wccc2003.html >> >>Lex > >"Up against the 512 processor monster! Deep Sjeng played well and got a nice >attack going, but in the end white also got a passed a-pawn, and the game was >drawn. A nice example of the simple attacking chess Deep Sjeng excels at. >" > >The comment is not really exact. After 12. ... c6!, good book move, Diep was out >of Book. If Diep had continued with 13. Rg1 instead of 13. Qb3?, the result >would have been another thing. However, Sjeng was not able to exploit the wasted >time by Diep from moves 13 to 17. On fact, 13. Qb3? begins a short wrong plan in >the queen side when the attack is in the king side. > >At the end, several inaccuracies on the Sjeng behalf let Diep to save the game. > >Regards, Arturo Ochoa M. > > >Dear Arturo, > >I think you have the board set up incorrectly. 13 Rg1 is impossible since >White's previous move was 12 O-O. Hi Steve, I think Arturo referred to 13. Kh1 followed by 14. Rg1 most probably. Looks nice at first sight, but I haven't looked closely. Peter > >Nonetheless, you have a point in criticizing 13 Qb3?! At first glance, 13 a3(!) >seems slightly better, when White has the strange looking option of replying to >13...Bxc3 with 14 bxc3!?. The benefit of this move order is that Deep Sjeng's >14...Nd5 doesn't automatically win White's dark-squared Bishop, since it can be >re-routed via Be3-c1, a3-a4, and then Bc1-a3 with some advantage to White. > >Of course this is merely a hasty assessment on my part after seeing your illegal >move suggestion. You are correct though that Deep Sjeng seems to have thrown >away some advantage with imprecise play later. > >All the best, > >Stephen
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