Author: Dan Ellwein
Date: 16:11:03 07/02/04
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On July 02, 2004 at 15:26:47, John Merlino wrote: >On July 02, 2004 at 15:01:59, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: > >>http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1757 >> >>Radjabov vs Adams, FIDE World Championship, Tripoli 2004 >>The semifinal game in this championship began as a familiar Catalan, the open >>variation with 5...a6 and 6...Nc6. But then Adams uncorked two moves that have >>never been played in tournaments before: 9...Nb6 and 10...Na5. Radjabov was soon >>in trouble. Adams hung on to his extra pawn and Radjabov could not seem to find >>the compensation that White usually has in the Catalan. >> >>Game score ==> http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1292802 > >Very interesting. Playing through the game with CM_SKR, The King seems to think >that White has some decent amount of compensation for the pawn for quite some >time. However, with 27.Nd4 Radjabov appears to go astray. This allows the Knight >fork at c2 and the forced exchange of minor pieces, putting a Black rook on the >2nd rank. After that, it's all downhill for White. > >So, in this position: > >[D]1kbrr3/1p4p1/p3pp2/2n1P2p/2p4P/n1P1RNP1/P2B1P2/4RBK1 w - - 0 28 CM9_OffSet likes Nd4 with a score of 1.08... P3/850 Time Depth Score Positions Moves 0:00 1/4 0.43 6280 1.R3e2 Nd3 2.Rd1 Nb5 3.exf6 gxf6 0:00 1/5 0.31 8391 1.R3e2 Nd3 2.Rd1 Nb2 3.Rc1 Nd3 0:00 1/5 0.39 10397 1.Rd1 Nc2 2.Re2 b6 3.exf6 gxf6 0:00 1/5 0.43 15070 1.exf6 gxf6 2.R3e2 Nd3 3.Rd1 e5 4.Be3 0:00 1/6 0.14 23257 1.exf6 gxf6 2.R3e2 Nd3 3.Rd1 e5 4.Be3 Bf5 0:01 1/6 0.57 39708 1.Rd1 Nc2 2.Re2 f5 3.Bg2 Ne4 0:01 1/7 0.53 82743 1.Rd1 Nc2 2.Re2 f5 3.Rc1 Na3 4.Nd4 0:04 1/8 0.70 227967 1.Rd1 f5 2.Nd4 Ne4 3.Be2 Nxd2 4.Rxd2 g6 5.Rd1 Bd7 0:07 1/9 0.59 468586 1.Rd1 Nc2 2.Re2 f5 3.Bg2 Ne4 4.Rc1 Nxd2 5.Rxd2 0:21 1/10 0.64 1396213 1.Rd1 f5 2.Nd4 Ne4 3.Be2 Nxd2 4.Rxd2 g6 5.Rd1 Bd7 6.Bf1 Ba4 0:41 1/11 0.64 2901748 1.Rd1 Nc2 2.Re2 f5 3.Rc1 Na3 4.Bg5 Rd3 5.Ne1 Rd7 6.Bg2 Nb5 1:01 1/11 1.09 4467383 1.exf6 gxf6 2.Nd4 Nc2 3.Nxc2 Rxd2 4.Nd4 Nd3 5.R1e2 Rd1 6.Nxe6 Ne5 7.Nd4 1:25 1/12 0.97 6377970 1.exf6 gxf6 2.Nd4 Nc2 3.Nxc2 Rxd2 4.Nd4 Nd3 5.R1e2 Rd1 6.Nxe6 Ne5 7.f4 2:28 2/13 0.93 11530188 1.exf6 gxf6 2.Nd4 e5 3.Bc1 Nd3 4.Bxd3 cxd3 5.Bxa3 exd4 6.Bd6+ Ka8 7.cxd4 Rxe3 8.Rxe3 d2 9.Rd3 4:37 2/13 1.11 21390365 1.Nd4 Nc2 2.Nxc2 Rxd2 3.exf6 gxf6 4.Nd4 b5 5.R3e2 Rxe2 6.Bxe2 Rh8 7.Bf3 Bd7 7:50 3/14 1.00 36624469 1.Nd4 Nc2 2.Nxc2 Rxd2 3.exf6 gxf6 4.Nd4 b5 5.R3e2 Rxe2 6.Bxe2 Rh8 7.Bf3 Bd7 8.Rd1 17:55 4/15 1.08 85257353 1.Nd4 Nc2 2.Nxc2 Rxd2 3.exf6 Rxc2 4.fxg7 Rg8 5.Bxc4 Rxg7 6.Re5 b6 7.Rb1 Kc7 8.Rxh5 Rxc3 9.Be2 Dan > >CM_SKR prefers 27.Rd1, with an eval of about -0.5 for Black. After 27.Nd4 Nc2 >28.Nxc2 Rxd2 29.Nd4, the eval is almost -1.1.... > >Not to say that Black didn't have a good advantage before 27.Nd4. But I think >that White lost all of his compensation with that move. > >jm
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