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Subject: Re: Is white winning? Comments from strong players wanted

Author: Johan Havegheer

Date: 02:30:49 02/21/04

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On February 20, 2004 at 11:50:30, Tord Romstad wrote:

>In a blitz game between Gothmog and Phalanx, played earlier today, the following
>position was reached:
>
>[D]3rr2k/pp3q1p/2p2pp1/8/2PP4/3B1Q2/PBN2PPP/6K1 w - -
>
>Without doing a search, Gothmog thinks white has a winning advantage.  The
>static eval returns a score of +2.0, despite approximate material equality.
>The big plus score for white seems to be almost entirely because of the
>bishop pair (my bishop pair bonus is really big when the opposite side
>has no minor pieces) and the weakness of black's a1-h8 diagonal.
>
>To this patzer's eyes, an advantage of +2 in this position seems to be
>way too much.  Should I have a closer look at my bishop pair bonus, or is
>Gothmog's assesment of the position really OK?
>
>Tord

Ruffian likes the position very much :

Nieuwe partij invoeren
3rr2k/pp3q1p/2p2pp1/8/2PP4/3B1Q2/PBN2PPP/6K1 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Ruffian 2004-02-08:

=  (0.14) 1.a3   00:00:00
=  (0.17) 1.c5   00:00:00
²  (0.32) 1.d5   00:00:00
²  (0.29) 1.d5 Td6   00:00:00
=  (0.03) 1.d5 Kg7 2.dxc6 bxc6   00:00:00
=  (0.25) 1.Le4 Te7 2.Pe3   00:00:00
=  (0.01) 1.Le4 Td7 2.Pe3 Tde7   00:00:00
²  (0.35) 1.d5 Kg7 2.dxc6 bxc6 3.Ld4   00:00:00
²  (0.32) 1.d5 Kg7 2.dxc6 bxc6 3.Ld4 Td6   00:00:00
²  (0.52) 1.d5 Kg7 2.Ld4 cxd5 3.cxd5 Txd5 4.Lxf6+ Kg8   00:00:00
±  (0.82) 1.d5 Kg7 2.Ld4 b5 3.dxc6 bxc4 4.Le4   00:00:00
±  (0.74) 1.d5 Kg7 2.Ld4 b5 3.dxc6 bxc4 4.Le4 Tb8   00:00:00
±  (0.84) 1.d5 Kg7 2.Ld4 a6 3.dxc6 Txd4 4.Pxd4 Te1+ 5.Lf1 Dxc4 6.Pe2 bxc6
00:00:00
±  (0.84) 1.d5 Kg7 2.Ld4 a6 3.dxc6 Txd4 4.Pxd4 Te1+ 5.Lf1 Dxc4 6.Pe2 bxc6
00:00:02
±  (0.84) 1.d5 Kg7 2.Ld4 a6 3.dxc6 Txd4 4.Pxd4 Te1+ 5.Lf1 Dxc4 6.Pe2 bxc6 7.a3
00:00:04
±  (1.03) 1.d5 Kg7 2.Pe3 b6 3.Dg3 Tf8 4.Lc3 Dd7 5.Le4 De8 6.Pf5+ Kh8 7.Pd6
00:00:22
±  (1.01) 1.d5 Kg7 2.Pe3 b6 3.Df4 De7 4.Pg4 Tf8 5.Lc3 cxd5 6.cxd5 Txd5 7.Lb4 De6
8.Lxf8+ Kxf8   00:00:31
±  (1.01) 1.d5 Kg7 2.Pe3 Tf8 3.Le4 De7 4.Lc2 Dc7 5.Lc3 Tde8 6.dxc6 Dxc6 7.Pd5 b5
8.cxb5 Dxb5   00:01:05
±  (1.12) 1.d5 Kg7 2.Pe3 b6 3.Df4 De7 4.g4 Kf7 5.Dh6 Kg8 6.Lxg6 hxg6 7.Dxg6+ Dg7
8.Dxg7+ Kxg7 9.dxc6 Td2 10.Pf5+ Kf7   00:03:49

(Havegheer, Diksmuide 21.02.2004)

Best regards
Johan




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