Author: Mihaly Szalai
Date: 07:38:52 05/27/04
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On May 26, 2004 at 23:12:14, Mike Byrne 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
>
>
>You should get a kick out of this game.
>
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>[Event "Linares 57/312"]
>[White "Anand,V"]
>[Black "Ivanchuk,V"]
>[Date "1993"]
>[Annotator "Anand,V"]
>[WhiteElo "2710"]
>[BlackElo "2710"]
>[ECO "C 43"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>
>
>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 Ne4 4. Bd3 d5 5. Ne5 Nd7 6. Nd7 Bd7 7. O-O Qh4 8.
>c4 O-O-O 9. c5 g5 ( 9... g6 {- 57/(312)} ) 10. Nc3 Bg7 11. g3 Qh3 12. Ne4
>de4 13. Be4 Bb5 14. Bg2 ( 14. Bg5 {- 50/(334)} ) 14... Qf5 15. Be3 $1 {N}
>( 15. Qb3 ) 15... Bf1 16. Bf1 $1 $44 {#D2 #5B#C5 #CAa4, #CBd3#5D} ( 16.
>Kf1 $6 {#5E #C8f1} ) 16... Rhe8 ( 16... Bd4 17. Bd4 Qe4 18. Bh8 Rd1 19.
>Rd1 ) ( 16... Qd7 17. Qb3 Rhe8 18. Rd1 ) 17. Qa4 Kb8 ( 17... Re3 18. fe3
>Qe4 ( 18... Qf3 19. Re1 ) 19. Qb3 $1 ( 19. Re1 Bd4 ) 19... Re8 ( 19...
>Rd4 20. Bg2 $16 ) 20. Re1 Bd4 21. Bg2 Be3 22. Kh1 $18 ) 18. Rd1 c6 ( 18...
>Re3 $6 19. fe3 Qf3 20. Rd3 $16 ) 19. Rd3 ( 19. Bg2 Re7 $1 20. d5 cd5 21. c6
>d4 $13 ) 19... Qe4 20. Ra3 a6 21. Bd3 ( 21. Ba6 Rd4 $1 22. Bd4 Bd4 23. Bf1
>Bc5 $132 ) 21... Qg4 $2 {#5E c6} ( 21... Qd5 $1 {#5E c6} 22. Ba6 ( {a)}
>22. Rb3 $6 22... Bd4 23. Bd4 ( 23. Rb7 $2 23... Kb7 24. Qa6 Kb8 25. Qb6
>Kc8 26. Qa7 Rd7 27. Qa8 Kc7 28. Qe8 Be3 $19 ) ( 23. Ba6 Re7 $1 24. Rd3 Re4
>25. Rb3 Rd7 ) 23... Re1 ( 23... Qd4 24. Rb7 Kb7 25. Qa6 Kb8 26. Qb6 Ka8
>27. Qc6 Kb8 $11 ) 24. Bf1 Qd4 25. Rb7 ( 25. Qc6 $2 25... Rf1 26. Kf1 Qd1
>27. Kg2 Qb3 ) 25... Kb7 26. Qa6 Kc7 ( 26... Kb8 27. Qb6 ) 27. Qa5 Kb8 28.
>Qe1 Qc5 $15 ) ( {b)} 22. Bc4 Qe4 $1 $11 ) 22... Bd4 23. Bb7 ( 23. Bc4 Qc5
>$17 ) 23... Bc5 $8 24. Rb3 ( 24. Bc6 Qd1 25. Kg2 Qa4 26. Ra4 Re3 27. fe3
>Rd2 28. Kh3 Rb2 $11 ) 24... Qd1 25. Kg2 Re3 $1 26. Qa8 ( 26. fe3 $4 26...
>Rd2 27. Kh3 Qh5 ) 26... Kc7 27. Qa5 Kb8 ( 27... Kd7 28. fe3 Qe2 $11 ) 28.
>Qa8 $11 ( 28. Re3 Qd5 $1 29. Rf3 g4 $19 ) ) 22. Rb3 $1 22... Bd4 $2 (
>22... Re7 23. Rb4 $16 ) ( 22... Rd7 23. Ba6 ( 23. Rb4 $2 23... Re3 24.
>fe3 Qf3 $17 ) ( 23. Qc6 Qd1 24. Kg2 Qb3 25. Qd7 ) 23... Bd4 24. Qc6 $1 )
>23. Rb7 $1 23... Kb7 24. Qa6 Kb8 25. Qb6 Ka8 26. Qc6 Kb8 27. Qb6 Ka8 28.
>Bb5 $1 ( 28. Bb5 Rc8 29. Bc6 Rc6 30. Qc6 Ka7 31. Qe8 Qd1 32. Kg2 Be3 33.
>Qe3 $18 )
>1-0
>
>
>position after 20. ... a6
>
>[d] 1k1rr3/1p3pbp/p1p5/2P3p1/Q2Pq3/R3B1P1/PP3P1P/5BK1 w - -
Thank you, but I know this game quite well (as I referred to it yesterday:
http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?367288()
A decade ago Petroff's Defense was in my repertoire as black, so I collected and
analyzed all available games. (I had no comp at that time.)
This game made a deep impression to me and I abandoned playing 5...Nd7, later
the whole Petroff's.
Crafty's last book move was 15...Bxf1. I had in my head Anand's winning plan
Rd1-d3-a3 (no chess engine predicts this IMO). So I think it was a mistake to
put this line into the openings book.
Best wishes
Mihaly
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