Author: Andrew Wagner
Date: 16:41:47 07/05/04
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On July 05, 2004 at 17:31:17, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote:
> Please see ==> http://www.inforchess.com/columnis/guti12.htm
Tactical and aggressive game against Shredder 7
By Miguel Angel Gutiérrez Roche
"How do you beat Miguel Gutiérrez Angel?" By Shredder 7.
Dear readers: This could have been the perfect title of the present article, if
it hadn't been for the appearance on the Inforchess web site of an article from
Jorge Quiñones titled "Kasparov, you should play the Blackmar Diemer...".
Shredder 7 is a magnificent program that has diminished my statistics of
victories by 50%. Its positional understanding, inspired by Karpov, favorite
player of Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, creator of engine, makes a frightful anti-Fritz
program. The small slip in the tournament in Paderborn recently celebrated and
leaving relegated it to the fifth position behind Fritz, Lies, Brutus and SOS,
does not have importance, since it played one of the best games of the match and
it is at the top of the SSDF lists. Let us remember that the results of many
matches (around 500) are needed before they are really significant. In the same
way that saying that Kasparov is a bad player in decline after its performance
in Linares is a barbarism, it would be unjust to call Shreder 7 "bad" or
"regular".
Taking advantage of the fact that I am a little sick and stuck at home, I decide
to play against Shredder 7 with "joy" and to return to my origins trying to beat
the silicon monstor with a tactical and aggressive game. One is possibly the
best game than I have played: the facts that I played with two pieces less and
used an inferior opening variation according to the book of Shredder 7, and it
proposed "to double the bet" after gaining an advantage of -+ 6 for the black
pieces or decisive advantage until movem 28, are intoxicating.
The game was played at 25 minutes with the original Shredder 7 book. I realize
that I "play the flute" [this must be an idiom, I don't recognize it --Andrew]
and only in stress-free conditions can I play this way, similar to what happens
in coffehouse games...
In closing, I want to finish with a quote from Albert Einstein: "If you want
distinct results, do things different." I hope you enjoy the game:
[Event "Rapid 25 0 game"]
[Site "Sevilla"]
[Date "2003.14.03"]
[White "Miguel Angel Gutierrez Roche"]
[Black "Shredder 7"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C11"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.e4 e6 {I wanted to play the Blackmar Diemer Gambit, but I
knew that the opening book would reject it to play more positional games, so I
felt obligated to invent a gambit or go out of opening book and try to take it
head on.} 4.Bg5 dxe4 5.f3? {A slightly strange move. More normal is Nxe4. The
idea is to develop my pieces as early as possible, looking for a strong attack.
[5.Nxe4 Bd7 6.Nf3 Bc6 7.Nxf6+ gxf6 8.Bh4 Be7 9.Bc4 Bd5 10.Qe2 Qd6 11.0-0 Nc6
12.Bg3 Bxf3 13.Qxf3 Qxd4 14.Bb5 Qb6 15.Bxc6+ Qxc6 16.Qxc6+ bxc6 17.Bxc7 Rg8
18.Rad1 Rg5 19.c4 Rc8 Schmittdiel,E-Dobosz,H/Augsburg 1989 1/2-1/2 (53)]}
5...Be7 {This move discouraged me a little. Black develops its pieces peacefully
and doesn't enter the trap? What do I do? [5...e3 6.Bc4 Nbd7 7.Qd3 Nb6 8.Bb3 c5
9.Nge2 Nd7 10.dxc5 Bxc5 11.Ne4 Be7 12.Bxf6 gxf6 13.0-0-0 Qc7 14.Qxe3 0-0-0
15.Rd3 Kb8 16.Qh6 Qe5 17.Rhd1 f5 18.Qh5 Qg7 19.Nd6 Rhf8 20.f4 Sucher-Netolitzky,
Austria 1999 1-0 (52)]} 6.fxe4 {Being faithful to my style, I try to leave the
opening and "deactive" the opening book...[6.Be3 exf3 7.Qxf3 0-0 8.0-0-0 Nc6
9.a3 Nd5 10.Nxd5 Qxd5 11.Qxd5 exd5 12.Bf4 Bd6 13.Bxd6 Nxd6 14.Nf3 Bg4 15.h3 Bf5
16.Bd3 Be4 17.Ng5 Rfe8 18.Rhf1 f6 19.Nxe4 dxe4 20.Bc4+ Kf8 1/2-1/2 Fernandez
Pintado-Capitan Flores, Terrassa 1996]} 6...O-O 7.Nf3 c5 {The black play is
simple. Now it starts to mine my pawn center, and it has a slight advantage.}
8.e5!? {Starting at this moment, I start to set up a typical attack scheme: Bd3
and h2-h4. The imagination, as Bronstein said, plays an important part in
chess.} 8...Ng4 9.h4 Nc6 10.Bd3 {Look at this! Move 10 and the monster has a
decisive advantage -+2. My hope is that my intuition goes beyond computer's
horizon.} 10...cxd4 11.Bxe7 Qxe7
{[D]r1b2rk1/pp2qppp/2n1p3/4P3/3p2nP/2NB1N2/PPP3P1/R2QK2R w KQ - } Bxh7+ {Played
without thinking, since I am sick :) and I'm not thinking through the moves
much. The advantage of the creature goes up to -+ 3, but since I've decided to
play happily, I don't give up and I continue :-). I try a ritual sacrifice.}
12...Kxh7 13.Ng5+ Kh6 {The king leaves its confines bravely, and it appears to
have everything under control. Black advantage: -+ 3.17} 14.Qxg4 dxc3 {Where's
my knight? :-)} 15.Qe4 f5! {Black defends precisely, and my head starts to hurt
as my fever goes up...}16.exf6 gxf6 17.Qe3 {I just lost my other knight and, for
dessert, the game. May as well give up...} 17...fxg5 {Decisive advantage for
black of -+ 5} 18. hxg5+ Kg6 19.Qh3 cxb2 {[19...Qxg5 20.Qh7+ Kf6 21.0-0+ Ke5÷;
19...Rf5 20.Qh5+ Kg7 21.Qh7+ Kf8 22.Qh8+ Kf7 23.Rh7+ Kg6 24.Qg8+ Qg7 25.Qxg7#;
19...Rf4 20.0-0-0 cxb2+ 21.Kb1 e5 22.Qh6+ Kf5 23.g3 Qe6 24.Qh3+ Rg4 25.Qh5 Qg8
26.Qh6 Nd4 27.Rhf1+ Rf4 28.gxf4+-]} 20.Qh5+ Kf5
{[D]r1b2r2/pp2q3/2n1p3/5kPQ/8/8/PpP3P1/R3K2R w KQ - Black advantage of -+ 5.
It's curious to observe the "psychology" of the computer, it's like it doesn't
matter to it that it's king is wandering to the center...} 21.g6+ Ke4 22.Qe2+
Kd5 23.Rd1+! {I activate the rook with check! -+ 2.73} 23...Kc5 24.a4 a6 25.Qe3+
Kb4 26.g7! Rd8 {[If 26...Qxg7 27.Qb3+ (27.Qb6+ kxa4 28.Rh4+ +- followed by mate)
27...Ka5 28.Rh5+ Ne5 29.Qc3+ Kb6 30.Qd4+ Ka5 31.Rxe5+ b5 32.Qc3+ Kb6 33.Rxb5+
axb5 34.Rd6+ Ka7 35.Qxg7+ Bb7 36.Qxb2 +-]} 27.Qb3+ Ka5 28.Rxd8 {Shredder already
doesn't like what it sees} 28.b1Q+ 29.Qxb1 {If you get an equal score when two
pieces down, that can only mean one thing: you're going to win the game.
Shredder is a magnificent positional program, and I had to change my strategy
and play it agressively and without mercy. Anyway, I doubt I'll ever get a game
like this again.} 29...Qxd8 30.Qb3 Bd7 31.Qc3+ Kxa4 32.Qc4+ Nb4 33.g8Q Qxg8
34.O-O! {1-0 [D]r5q1/1p1b4/p3p3/8/knQ5/8/2P3P1/5RK1 b - - This is the final
position, which I'll leave to you to study to find the win: +- 4.75 decisive
advantage for white.}
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