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Subject: Re: Positional move for the amateurs

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:50:30 07/30/04

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On July 30, 2004 at 10:55:07, Albert Silver wrote:

>The following position arose in a famous game between Taimanov and Karpov in
>1973. Karpov sacrificed a pawn to prevent white from pushing c4, and obtain
>excellent play against the hanging pawns using the two files. I expect that most
>of the top engines should find this move, but the amateurs should find it much
>harder. How does your engine do?
>
>                                         Albert
>
>[D]2q2rk1/p1rn1ppp/1p2pn2/8/Q2P4/2P2N2/P2B1PPP/2RR2K1 b - - 0 17
>
>17...Rc4! 18.Qxa7 Qc6 19.Qa3 Rc8

And the last position after 19...Rc8 is supposed to be better for black?

Movei does not see it and suggest 20.Qb3 instead of the game move 20.h3

[D]2r3k1/3n1ppp/1pq1pn2/8/2rP4/Q1P2N2/P2B1PPP/2RR2K1 w - - 0 20

depth=13 +0.37 a3b3 f6e4 d2e1 e4c3 c1c3 c4c3 d4d5 c6c4 b3c3 c4c3 e1c3 c8c3 d5e6
f7e6

Uri

• Re: Positional move for the amateurs Albert Silver 17:55:20 07/30/04
  • Re: Positional move for the amateurs....."Pure Karpov".... Rob Basham 08:02:06 07/31/04
    • Re: Positional move for the amateurs....."Pure Karpov".... Albert Silver 08:34:18 07/31/04

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