Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:29:01 05/27/04
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On May 27, 2004 at 06:42:31, Vasik Rajlich wrote: >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 >> >>I wonder if there are not cases when you try similiar sacrifices and they do not >>work because the computer finds a defence. >> >> >>Uri > >Uri - a few clicks lower on the page, you posted a position where you crushed >black in exactly the same way, with Bxh6. So make up your mind .. :-) I did not claim that it was easy to calculate and be sure that I was winning. In the game I played Ne5 fast and did not see the simple fork(it was only blitz 3/0 and I do mistakes at that level) but I was lucky to find a convincing reply to the fork. Uri
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