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Subject: Re: (OT) Slav Defense = "A Promising Pawn Sacrifice" [GM Kavalek]

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 09:52:49 05/24/04

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On May 24, 2004 at 10:02:28, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote:

>Please see = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50645-2004May23.html
>
>Carlsen - Nielsen = 12th Sigeman tournament, May 2004
>
>1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.Nh4!? (Former world champion
>Alexander Alekhine gave credit for this knight move to Orla Hermann Krause, a
>Danish analyst who found many new ideas in the Slav defense in the 1920s. White
>wastes time to eliminate the ominous black's queen bishop at all costs. The
>leading alternative today is 6.Ne5.) 6...Bg4 (In the game Alekhine-Stolz, Bled
>1931, black played 6...e6, which Alekhine considered natural and good. He wrote:
>"White will enjoy a pair of bishops [after 7.Nxf5 exf5 8.e3], but as long as
>black is able to control the central squares he should not have much to fear."
>
>Most common is the retreat 6...Bc8. Alekhine advocated 7.e3 e5 8.Bxc4 exd4
>9.exd4 "with slightly better prospects for white." Garry Kasparov picked up this
>line almost 60 years later but without much success. More interesting is the
>piece sacrifice 7.e4 e5 8.Bxc4 exd4 9.Nf3!?, for example 9...dxc3 10.Bxf7+ Ke7
>11.Qb3 with messy prospects.)
>
>7.h3 (Black can meet 7.f3 with 7...Bd7, for example 8.e4 e6 9.Bxc4 [9.g3 b5!]
>Nxe4! with an edge.) 7...Bh5 8.g4 Bg6 9.Nxg6 hxg6 10.e3 e6 11.Bxc4 Bb4 12.Bd2 (A
>useful developing move. 12.Qf3 was played before, but it may not be the best
>square for the queen.) 12...Nbd7 13.g5 (Carlsen decides to take the center at
>the expense of overextended pawns.) 13...Nd5 14.e4 N5b6 15.Bb3 a5 16.Qe2 c5!?
>(The other break 16...e5?! was played in Carlsen- Andriasian in Budva,
>Montenegro, last year. After 17.dxe5 Nxe5 18.0-0-0 Nd3+ 19.Kb1 Nc5 20.Nb5!? Nxb3
>21.Bxb4 axb4 22.Rxd8+ Rxd8 instead of 23.Nc7+?, white should have played
>23.Rd1!, for example 23...cxb5 24.Rxd8+ Kxd8 25.Qd1+; or 23..Ke7 24.Nd6! and
>white wins.)
>
>17.d5 c4!? (A promising pawn sacrifice, giving black plenty of play on the weak
>light squares.)

Shredder 8 like it immediately (AMD 2800+@12*180Mhz), and the second move is
0.41 worse :

2 best moves mode :

1. = (-0.05): 17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4
2. ² (0.36): 17...exd5 18.exd5+ De7 19.Dxe7+ Rxe7 20.0-0-0 Th4 21.d6+ Rf8 22.Fe1
Fxc3 23.bxc3 Te4 24.Fd2 Cxa4 25.f3 Tae8


log for THE best move :

17...Fxc3 18.Fxc3 Dxg5 19.Fxg7
  ²  (0.61)   Profondeur: 1/6   00:00:00
17...c4
  ²  (0.59)   Profondeur: 1/10   00:00:00
17...c4
  ²  (0.59)   Profondeur: 1/10   00:00:00
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4
  ²  (0.59)   Profondeur: 2/8   00:00:00
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4
  ²  (0.59)   Profondeur: 3/11   00:00:00
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4
  ²  (0.59)   Profondeur: 4/15   00:00:00
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dh5 gxh5
  ²  (0.34)   Profondeur: 5/16   00:00:00
17...c4 18.Fc2 Cc5 19.Df3 0-0
  =  (0.16)   Profondeur: 5/18   00:00:00
17...c4 18.Fxc4 exd5 19.Fxd5 Df6 20.gxf6
  ²  (0.41)   Profondeur: 6/20   00:00:00
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 Tc8 20.Db5 exd5 21.exd5 Fxc3 22.Fxc3 Dxg5 23.Fxg7
  ²  (0.63)   Profondeur: 6/20   00:00:00
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 Tc8 20.Db5 0-0 21.dxe6 fxe6 22.Dxb7
  ²  (0.64)   Profondeur: 7/16   00:00:00  42kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 Tc8 20.Db5 exd5 21.De2 dxe4 22.Cxe4
  ²  (0.39)   Profondeur: 8/20   00:00:00  92kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 Tc8 20.Dd4 Cc5 21.Tc1 Fxc3 22.bxc3 exd5 23.exd5
  ²  (0.39)   Profondeur: 8/20   00:00:00  98kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 Tc8 20.Dd4 e5 21.Dd3 Fxc3 22.bxc3
  ²  (0.58)   Profondeur: 9/23   00:00:00  138kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 0-0 20.0-0 Ce5 21.dxe6 Cxc4
  ²  (0.33)   Profondeur: 10/24   00:00:01  304kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 0-0 20.dxe6 Ce5 21.exf7+ Txf7 22.Dd5 Cd3+ 23.Re2
Cxf2 24.Thf1
  =  (0.07)   Profondeur: 10/25   00:00:01  373kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 0-0 20.dxe6 Ce5 21.Dd5 Cf3+ 22.Rd1 Cxd2 23.exf7+
Rh7 24.Rxd2 Dxg5+ 25.Dxg5
  ²  (0.32)   Profondeur: 11/29   00:00:02  496kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 0-0 20.dxe6 Ce5 21.Dd5 Cf3+ 22.Re2 fxe6 23.Tag1
Cxg1+ 24.Txg1 exd5
  ²  (0.32)   Profondeur: 11/29   00:00:02  576kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 0-0 20.dxe6 Ce5 21.Dd5 Cf3+ 22.Rd1 fxe6 23.Dxe6+
Tf7 24.Dd5 Dd6 25.Dxd6
  ²  (0.37)   Profondeur: 12/26   00:00:03  1007kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 0-0 20.dxe6 Ce5 21.Dd5 Cf3+ 22.Rd1 Dxd5 23.Re2 Cxd2
24.The1
  =  (0.12)   Profondeur: 13/32   00:00:07  2022kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 0-0 20.dxe6 Ce5 21.Dd5 Cf3+ 22.Re2 Cd4+ 23.Rf1 Cxe6
24.Dxd8 Fxc3 25.Dxa8
  =  (0.12)   Profondeur: 13/32   00:00:08  2177kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 0-0 20.dxe6 Ce5 21.exf7+ Txf7 22.Dd5 Cf3+ 23.Rd1
Rf8 24.Fe3 Td7 25.Fc5+ Fxc5 26.Dd6+ Fxd6
  =  (-0.01)   Profondeur: 14/34   00:00:17  4701kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 0-0 20.0-0-0 Tc8 21.Db5 exd5 22.exd5 Fxc3 23.Fxc3
Tc5 24.Dxb7 Dxg5+ 25.Rb1 Df5+ 26.Ra1
  =  (-0.03)   Profondeur: 15/37   00:00:29  8243kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 0-0 20.dxe6 Ce5 21.Dd5 Cf3+ 22.Re2 fxe6 23.Dxd8
Taxd8 24.Fe3 Fxc3 25.bxc3 Td2+ 26.Fxd2 Cd4+ 27.cxd4 Txf2+ 28.Rxf2
  =  (0.22)   Profondeur: 16/36   00:00:40  11750kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 0-0 20.dxe6 Ce5 21.Dd5 Cf3+ 22.Re2 Cd4+ 23.Rf1 Cxe6
24.Dxd8 Tfxd8 25.Rg2 Txd2 26.Cd5
  =  (0.22)   Profondeur: 16/36   00:00:49  14343kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 0-0 20.dxe6 Ce5 21.Dd5 Cd3+ 22.Re2 fxe6 23.Dxe6+
Rh7 24.f3 Cxb2 25.Dd5 Dc7 26.Thd1 Fxc3 27.Dg8+ Rxg8
  =  (-0.03)   Profondeur: 17/41   00:01:46  30155kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 0-0 20.dxe6 Ce5 21.Dd5 Cd3+ 22.Re2 fxe6 23.Dxe6+
Rh7 24.f3 Cxb2 25.Dd5 Dc7 26.Tac1 Dg3 27.Tcf1 Df2+
  =  (-0.03)   Profondeur: 17/41   00:01:52  32002kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 0-0 20.dxe6 Ce5 21.Dd5 Cd3+ 22.Re2 fxe6 23.Dxe6+
Rh7 24.Dd5 Cxf2 25.Dxd8 Taxd8 26.Thc1 Fc5 27.Tf1
  =  (-0.14)   Profondeur: 18/47   00:04:48  82918kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 0-0 20.dxe6 Ce5 21.Dd5 Cf3+ 22.Re2 Cxd2 23.Dxd2 Db6
24.exf7+ Txf7 25.Taf1 Td8 26.Dc2 Dd4 27.f4 Fxc3
  =  (-0.06)   Profondeur: 19/47   00:06:56  119688kN
17...c4 18.Fxc4 Cxc4 19.Dxc4 0-0 20.0-0 Tc8 21.Db5 exd5 22.Dxd5 Cb6 23.Dxd8
Tfxd8 24.Tfd1 Cc4 25.Fc1 Fxc3 26.Txd8+ Txd8 27.bxc3 Td3 28.Tb1
  =  (-0.05)   Profondeur: 20/47   00:13:04  236322kN





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