Author: Steffen Jakob
Date: 10:16:40 01/07/04
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On January 07, 2004 at 10:58:01, Tord Romstad wrote:
>On January 07, 2004 at 10:41:17, zeidoun wrote:
>
>>Is your engines gonna be for ever a private engine?
>
>You can play against it on the ICC almost any time. I played two interesting
>games against it there yesterday.
Hi Tord!
Yes, I saw those games. Gothmog played with a great attacking style (although he
was successfull with it only in one game). Here are the games with diagrams of
the crucial positions:
[Event "ICC 15 5"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2004.01.06"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Hossa"]
[Black "GothmogX"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White checkmated"]
[WhiteElo "2304"]
[BlackElo "2444"]
[Opening "QGA: classical, 6...a6"]
[ECO "D27"]
[NIC "QG.07"]
[Time "11:42:26"]
[TimeControl "900+5"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. O-O a6 7. a3 b5 8. Ba2
Bb7 9. Nc3 Nbd7 10. Qe2 Qc7 11. dxc5 Bxc5 12. Rd1 O-O 13. Bb1 Ne5 14. Nxe5
Qxe5 15. Bd2 Rad8 16. Bc2 h5 17. Kh1 g5 18. Kg1 Ng4 19. g3 f5 20. b4 Bb6 21.
Be1 h4 22. Rxd8 hxg3 23. Rxf8+ Kxf8 24. fxg3 Bxe3+ 25. Kf1 Bf3 26. Qxf3
Nxh2+ 27. Kg2 Nxf3 28. Kxf3 g4+ 29. Ke2 Bd4+ 30. Kf1 Qe3 31. Nd1 Qf3+ 32.
Bf2 Bxa1 33. Kg1 Qxa3 34. Bc5+ Kf7 35. Ne3 Qc1+ 36. Bd1 a5 37. Kf2 axb4 38.
Bb6 Qd2+ 39. Kg1 Be5 40. Bb3 Bd4 41. Bxd4 Qxd4 42. Kf2 Qd2+ 43. Kf1 Qxe3 44.
Bd1 Qd2 45. Bb3 f4 46. gxf4 g3 47. Bxe6+ Kf6 48. Kg1 Qf2+ 49. Kh1 Qf1#
{White checkmated}
0-1
[D]3R1rk1/1b6/pb2p3/1p2qpp1/1P4np/P1N1P1P1/2B1QP1P/R3B1K1 b - - 0 22
White had just played 22. Rxd8. Instead of taking back on d8 (which would also
be good for black), Gothmog started a convincing attack with 22... hxg3!
[Event "ICC 15 5"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2004.01.06"]
[Round "-"]
[White "GothmogX"]
[Black "Hossa"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2420"]
[BlackElo "2315"]
[Opening "Sicilian: Sozin with ...a6 and ...b5"]
[ECO "B87"]
[NIC "SI.13"]
[Time "10:45:29"]
[TimeControl "900+5"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bc4 e6 7. Bb3 b5 8.
O-O b4 9. Na4 Bb7 10. Re1 Nbd7 11. c3 Nxe4 12. f3 Nec5 13. Nxc5 Nxc5 14.
cxb4 Nxb3 15. Qxb3 Be7 16. Nxe6 fxe6 17. Qxe6 Kf8 18. Bf4 Bc8 19. Qd5 Ra7
20. Rad1 Rb7 21. Bxd6 Bxd6 22. Qxd6+ Qxd6 23. Rxd6 Rd7 24. Rb6 Kf7 25. b5
axb5 26. Rxb5 Rhd8 27. Rf5+ Kg6 28. Rb5 Rd1 29. Rb6+ Kg5 30. Kf1 R8d2 31.
Rb5+ Kf6 32. Rb6+ Kf7 33. Rxd1 Rxd1+ 34. Ke2 Rg1 35. Kf2 Rh1 36. Kg3 Be6 37.
a3 Kf6 38. h4 h6 39. b4 Ra1 40. Ra6 Rb1 41. h5 Rb2 42. Rb6 Ra2 43. Ra6 Rd2
44. a4 Rd5 45. b5 Rg5+ 46. Kf2 Rxh5 47. b6 Rc5 48. Ke3 Rc3+ 49. Kd2 Rb3 50.
a5 g6 51. Ra7 Bc4 52. Kc2 Rb5 53. b7 Bd5 54. a6 Ke5 55. Kd2 h5 56. Ke3 Rb3+
57. Kd2 Kf4 58. Kc2 Rb5 59. Ra8 Bxb7 60. axb7 Rxb7 61. Ra6 g5 62. Re6 Kg3
63. Re5 Rg7 64. Re2 Rc7+ 65. Kd3 Rd7+ 66. Kc3 g4 67. f4 Kxf4 68. Kc4 h4 69.
Kc5 {White resigns} 0-1
[D]r2qk2r/1b2bppp/p2pp3/8/1P1N4/1Q3P2/PP4PP/R1B1R1K1 w kq - 0 16
Here Gothmog played the interesting but dubious 16. Nxe6?!.
Greetings,
Steffen.
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