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Subject: Re: Me vs. Crafty

Author: Mihaly Szalai

Date: 09:21:55 05/26/04

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On May 26, 2004 at 11:56:39, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

Take a closer look at it and show me a defense for black.
22...Qe6 was a bad move. After that it's a forced win to white.

[D]7r/k2r1pb1/p3q3/2P3pp/Q2P4/1R2B1P1/PP3P1P/6K1 b - - 0 24


>

Other moves was bad as well. Eg. 22...Rb7 23. Qxd6 Rc7 24. Rb3 Kc8 25. Qxa6 Kd7
27.d5 and how do you defend yourself?

[D]7r/2rk1pb1/Q7/2PP1qpp/8/1R2B1P1/PP3P1P/6K1 b - - 0 26


>I wonder if there are not cases when you try similiar sacrifices and they do not
>work because the computer finds a defence.

Sure. Plenty of them ;)

Mihaly

>
>Uri



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