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Subject: Re: Correspondence game re-examined

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 11:57:54 05/21/04

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On May 21, 2004 at 10:07:01, Mihaly Szalai wrote:

>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



Axon running on a single Xeon 2.4 Ghz settles on exd6 after 1'27", while the SMP
version finds exd6 in 35" (master CPU single Xeon 2.4-Ghz, slave P4-3Ghz).





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