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Subject: Re: Test Position

Author: Johan de Koning

Date: 17:05:51 04/23/04

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On April 23, 2004 at 16:52:42, John Merlino wrote:

>This position is from The King v Diep in the recent ICT4.
>
>[D]r3k2r/pp1bppbp/2n3p1/8/8/2N1B1P1/PP2PPBP/2RK3R w kq - 0 13
>
>The Chessmaster 9000 database has two games with this position, played by top
>GMs (Andersson v Leko in 1996 and Smirin v Alterman in 1998). In both cases,
>White played f4 and won.
>
>The King, however, chose Kc2 and is soon forced over to a3.

Actually I cheered when TK switched to Kc2 at the last minute (make that
the last second :-). Both a3 and a1/b1 look better then e1, superficially.
Little did I know what lied ahead though. :-(

... Johan



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