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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