Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:56:39 05/26/04
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On May 26, 2004 at 10:45:18, Mihaly Szalai wrote: >I've just played this entertaining game against Crafty 19.13. > >[Event ""] >[Site "Celeron 1.7 GHz"] >[Date "2004.5.26"] >[Round ""] >[White "Szalai,M."] >[Black "Crafty 19.13"] >[TimeControl "1800+5"] >[Result "1-0"] > >1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.d4 Nxe4 4.Bd3 d5 5.Nxe5 Nd7 6.Nxd7 Bxd7 7.O-O Qh4 >8.c4 O-O-O 9.c5 g5 10.Nc3 Bg7 11.g3 Qh3 12.Nxe4 dxe4 13.Bxe4 Bb5 14.Bg2 >Qf5 15.Be3 Bxf1 16.Bxf1 c6 17.Qa4 Kb8 18.Rd1 Rd7 19.Rd3 h5 20.Ra3 a6 >21.Bxa6 bxa6 22.Qxc6 Qe6 23.Rb3+ Ka7 24.Qa4 Rd5 25.Rb6 Qc8 26.Qb3 Rhd8 >27.c6 Ka8 28.c7 Qxc7 29.Rxa6+ Qa7 30.Qb6 Qxa6 31.Qxa6+ Kb8 32.b4 R8d6 >33.Qe2 Bxd4 34.Bxd4 Rxd4 35.Qe8+ Kb7 36.Qxf7+ Rd7 37.Qxh5 Rxb4 38.Qxg5 >Rb2 39.a4 Rd1+ 40.Kg2 Rdd2 41.Qf4 Rd7 42.h4 Rb6 43.h5 Kc6 44.g4 Kb7 >45.g5 Re6 46.h6 Rh7 47.Qg4 Rc6 48.Qe4 1-0 > >After following a well-known opening line, we arrived to this position >some moves later: > >[D]1k5r/1p1r1pb1/p1p5/2P2qpp/Q2P4/R3B1P1/PP3P1P/5BK1 w - - 0 21 > >21.Bxa6! > >And the rest was easy. >Isn't chess beautiful? > >You can see a screenshot of the final position here: >http://www.geocities.com/misimatt/crw.jpg > >Mihaly I do not see it as easy to calculate and see that 21.Bxa6 is good. I do not see a single forced line after 21.Bxa6 I wonder if there are not cases when you try similiar sacrifices and they do not work because the computer finds a defence. Uri
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