Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 02:55:41 01/08/04
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Hi Steffen!
On January 07, 2004 at 13:16:40, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>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).
I thought the attack looked dubious even in the game won by Gothmog
(the kingside pawn storm looked way too risky to me, but I'm a weak
player and could very well be wrong). When Gothmog played 22... hxg3
with a score of +5 or something, I was afraid it was the result of a
bug, but it really seems to work.
Hossa's endgame play in the Sicilian game was impressive. I really
didn't think it would be possible for black to win this endgame.
Tord
>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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