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Subject: Re: Testposition from Comet-The Baron

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 05:33:17 02/16/04

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On February 16, 2004 at 05:23:25, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On February 15, 2004 at 18:19:58, Andrew Williams wrote:
>
>>On February 15, 2004 at 16:31:35, Richard Pijl wrote:
>>
>>>In the final round of IPCCC The Baron played with black against Comet. The Baron
>>>did scare me by playing Nxd4 in the position below. However, it turned out to be
>>>correct and the Baron won the resulting endgame.
>>>
>>>[D] 3r2k1/pb3qbp/1pnrp3/1B3p2/Q2P4/4B3/P3NPPP/1R1R2K1 b - - 3 23
>>>
>>>Full game:
>>>
>>>[Event "IPCCC"]
>>>[Site "Paderborn"]
>>>[Date "2004.02.15"]
>>>[Round "7"]
>>>[White "Comet"]
>>>[Black "The Baron"]
>>>[Result "0-1"]
>>>[ECO "D86"]
>>>[Opening "Gruenfeld"]
>>>[Variation "Exchange, Simagin's improved Variation"]
>>>
>>>1.c4 Nf6 2.d4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bc4 O-O 8.Ne2 Nc6
>>>9.O-O b6 10.Bd3 Bb7 11.Bg5 Qd7 12.Qd2 Rfd8 13.Rfd1 f6 14.Bf4 e6 15.Rab1 Qf7
>>>16.Be3 Rd6 17.Qc2 Rad8 18.c4 R6d7 19.c5
>>>f5 20.exf5 gxf5 21.cxb6 cxb6 22.Bb5 R7d6 23.Qa4 Nxd4 24.Rxd4 Bxd4 25.Bxd4 Qg6
>>>26.f3 Bxf3
>>>27.Nf4 R6xd4 28.Qxd4 Rxd4 29.Nxg6 Be4 30.Ne7+ Kf8
>>>31.Nxf5 Bxf5 32.Rc1 Rb4 33.Bf1 a5 34.Rc3 Rb2 35.a3 Ke7 36.Bd3 Bxd3 37.Rxd3 Kf6
>>>38.Rf3+ Ke5 39.Rh3 Ra2 40.Rxh7 Rxa3 41.Rh5+ Kd6 42.Rb5 Kc6 43.Re5 Ra1+ 44.Kf2
>>>Kd6 45.Rb5 Kc6 46.Re5 a4 47.Rxe6+ Kc5
>>>48.Re5+ Kb4 49.Re4+ Ka5 50.h3 a3 51.Re7 a2  0-1
>>
>>
>>PM finally settles on this move after 5 minutes 43 seconds (AMD64 3200+). It's
>>been searching for 25 minutes now and the score is "higher than" +0.60 for
>>Black.
>>
>>Andrew
>
>Comet-Paderborn finds it too in a reasonable time on the Paderborn-hardware.
>However, there was not really a chance for Comet to "smell the danger" already
>one move before (to avoid 23. Qa4).
>
>Anyway, a nice combination by TheBaron.
>
>Uli

comet blundered i guess. Taking with rook looks stupid. Bxd4 looks better and a
drawish. Still Nxd4 is a nice shot by The Baron.





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