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Subject: Re: start your engines

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 19:38:04 06/14/04

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On June 14, 2004 at 22:24:15, Mike Byrne wrote:

>The bottom position is from the Chess Informant anotations of the famous game 19
>of the Spassky - Petrosian match in 1969.  A position from this game is Nolot #
>5
>
>[d]r2qrb1k/1p1b2p1/p2ppn1p/8/3NP3/1BN5/PPP3QP/1K3RR1 w - -
>
>and there is a recent thread regarding this game.
>
>
>
>I am pretty sure it is a forced mate starting with 1.... Rg5!! although I am
>still awaiting confirmation. GM Geller  provided this move in his annotations
>,but he did not indicate it was mate.
>
>[d]r3rb1k/1p1b2p1/pq2p1Qp/8/4Np2/1B3N2/PPP4P/1K4R1 w - - 0 4
>
>...Rg5!

it mat not be an easily discovered forced mate -- Crafty is now seeing 1. ...Rg5
2. e5!?  which may stop the forced mate , but clearly hangs the queen...

• Re: start your engines Bryan Hofmann 04:23:00 06/15/04
• Re: start your engines Steffen Jakob 21:51:12 06/14/04
  • Re: start your engines John Merlino 22:03:22 06/14/04

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