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Subject: Correspondence game re-examined

Author: Mihaly Szalai

Date: 07:07:01 05/21/04


I played this corr. game almost 4 years ago:

[Event "Hun - Est Team Friendly"]
[Site "ICCF"]
[Date "2000.07.26"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Szalai, Mihaly"]
[Black "Narva, Regina"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7
7.Be2 O-O 8.O-O Nc6 9.Nb3 Bd7 10.Kh1 Qc8 11.f4 Bg4 12.Bg1 Bxe2
13.Qxe2 Qg4 14.Qd2 Rfd8 15.h3 Qd7 16.Rad1 b5 17.Rfe1 Rab8
18.Nd5 e6 19.Nxf6+ Bxf6 20.e5 Bh4 21.exd6 Bxe1 22.Qxe1 Qe8
23.Nc5 Qf8 24.d7 Ne7 25.Ne4 Nd5 26.Bc5 Qg7 27.Bd4 Qf8
28.Be5 f5 1-0

Position after 20...Bh4:

[D]1r1r2k1/p2q1p1p/2npp1p1/1p2P3/5P1b/1N5P/PPPQ2P1/3RR1BK w - - 0 21

21.exd6!

This move is so natural for the human eye that I haven't even considered
anything else. The disappearanece of the black bishop, the weakened black
squares and the passed pawn outpost are well worth the rook and secures a
superior position - what is equal to an easy win in a correspondence game.
(At least in most cases...)

At that time I had a very slow computer and very few chess programs. Now
I'm glad to see that this human-like move is the first choice of Junior 8.

What does your favourite engine say?

Thanks
Mihaly



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