Author: Chessfun
Date: 10:52:26 02/24/04
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On February 24, 2004 at 13:27:22, John Merlino wrote:
>On February 23, 2004 at 23:43:01, Mike S. wrote:
>
>>On February 23, 2004 at 17:55:47, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>>This should be the last position after 27.Bh4. My bad....
>>
>>[D]2r2r1k/p6B/1qn1b3/3pP3/1P1P1P1b/P1p2NR1/6P1/1K5R w - - 0 28
>>
>>According to results of a quick analysis with Hiarcs 9 on my internet pc (which
>>is a bit slow though, 700 MHz), this position ist clearly won for white because
>>the threats against the bk are too strong. Black's going to have to return
>>material to avoid a direct mate. After the last move in your variant 27...Bh4,
>>28.Bd3 simply threats #1. It seems that only 28...Qd8 or 28...Rxf4 are defense
>>attempts which make some sense, but are not sufficient:
>>
>>22...bxc3 23.Qxe6+ Bf7 24.Bxg6 Qb6 25.b4 Bxe6 26.Bxh7+ Kh8 27.Rh1 Bh4 28.Bd3 Qd8
>>(28...Rxf4 29.Nxh4 Bg4 30.Ng6+ Kg8 {(or Kg7)} 31.Nxf4) (28...c2+ {achieves
>>nothing.}) 29.Nxh4 Qd7 30.Nf3+ Bh3 31.Rhxh3+ Qxh3 32.Rxh3+)
>>
>>(I didn't check the analysis prior to 28.Bd3)
>
>I'm not so sure. Here is the line that CM_SKR chooses after 28.Bd3 (it starts
>out very similarly to your 28...Rxf4 line above, except CM throws 28...c2+ in
>first):
>
>28...c2+ 29.Kc1 Rxf4! 30.Nxh4 Bg4 31.Ng6+ Kg8 32.Nxf4 Nxe5! 33.dxe5 Kf8 34.Rf1
>Ke8 35.Nxd5 Qh6+
>
>And at this White is only up a pawn and both Kings are very open. Here's the
>position after the above line:
>
>[D]2r1k3/p7/7q/3NP3/1P4b1/P2B2R1/2p3P1/2K2R2 w - - 0 36
>
>Sorry that I'm nattering on about this game, but I find it particularly
>fascinating.... :-)
>
>jm
I looked at this c2+ this morning but for some reason couldn't log onto CCC.
I have posted to Mike's post as that was how I wrote it.
Sarah.
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