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Subject: Re: Brilliant positional sac by Kasparov. Can any find it?

Author: Dan Ellwein

Date: 18:24:42 08/05/04

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On August 05, 2004 at 19:42:24, Albert Silver wrote:

>The following position arose in Kasparov-Andersson, Tilburg, 1981. Kasparov,
>only 18 at the time, played a brilliant pawn sac that left Andersson unable to
>develop and to his loss in spectacular fashion. It is a difficult move to find,
>and I am not even sure whether any engine will, yet it is unquestionably the
>best move.
>
>                                         Albert
>
>[D]r2qkb1r/n1pp1pp1/4p1bp/1p6/1P1P3P/P3P1P1/1B1N1P2/R2QKB1R w KQkq -
>
>14.d5 is the move here.

Hi Albert,

On a P3/850, CM9_OffSet sees d5 (although it may not be for the right reason) in
2:14 min...

Time	Depth	Score	Positions	Moves
----	----	----	----		----
0:00	1/3	1.19	768		1.Bg2 d5 2.O-O Be7
0:00	1/3	1.19	768		1.Bg2 d5 2.O-O Be7
0:00	1/4	1.22	1776		1.Bg2 d5 2.O-O Bd3
0:00	1/4	1.24	2136		1.h5 Bh7 2.Bg2 d5 3.O-O
0:00	1/5	1.15	6381		1.h5 Bh7 2.Bg2 d5 3.O-O Be7
0:00	1/5	1.31	9981		1.Bg2 d5 2.e4 Be7 3.exd5 exd5
0:00	1/6	1.47	27259		1.Bg2 c6 2.e4 Be7 3.h5 Bh7 4.O-O
0:01	1/7	1.27	108442		1.Bg2 d5 2.e4 Be7 3.exd5 exd5 4.O-O
					O-O
0:03	1/8	1.54	232297		1.Bg2 c6 2.Rc1 h5 3.e4 Be7 4.O-O
					O-O 5.Qb3
0:06	1/9	1.32	491363		1.Bg2 d5 2.e4 Be7 3.exd5 exd5 4.Qb3
					c6 5.O-O O-O
0:13	1/10	1.56	1157590		1.Bg2 d5 2.e4 Be7 3.h5 Bh7 4.exd5
					exd5 5.Qb3 c6 6.O-O
0:28	1/11	1.42	2602352		1.Bg2 d5 2.e4 Be7 3.exd5 exd5 4.Qb3
					c6 5.O-O O-O 6.Rfe1 Qd7
1:29	1/12	1.49	8368891		1.Bg2 d5 2.e4 c6 3.O-O Be7 4.f4
					Qd7 5.f5 exf5 6.exd5 cxd5 7.Rc1
2:14	1/12	1.60	12627233	1.d5 exd5 2.Bg2 c6 3.O-O f5 4.Qc2
					Nc8 5.a4 bxa4 6.Rxa4 Rb8 7.Rd1
3:53	1/13	1.53	22363008	1.d5 exd5 2.Bg2 c6 3.O-O Nc8 4.Re1
					f5 5.a4 bxa4 6.Rxa4 Rb8 7.h5
9:19	2/14	1.64	54420033	1.d5 exd5 2.Bg2 c6 3.O-O Nc8 4.e4
					dxe4 5.Bxe4 Bxe4 6.Nxe4 d5 7.Qc2
					Ne7 8.Rad1 Qc7
32:24	3/15	1.64	191750686	1.d5 exd5 2.Bg2 c6 3.O-O Nc8 4.Re1
					Ne7 5.e4 dxe4 6.Nxe4 d5 7.Nc5 Bf5
					8.Rc1 h5
my best,

Dan

Later Gary began the saccing (pieces this time) in the
>following position:
>
>[D]2nq3r/r2pbkp1/2p2p1p/1p5P/1P2N1Q1/P5P1/1B3P2/3RR1K1 w - -
>
>He played 24.Nxf6, though there is probably more than one win at this point.
>
>[Event "It"]
>[Site "Tilburg (Netherlands)"]
>[Date "1981"]
>[Round ""]
>[White "Kasparov Garry (RUS)"]
>[Black "Andersson Ulf (SWE)"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[Eco "E12"]
>[Annotator ""]
>[Source ""]
>
>1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.a3 Bb7 5.Nc3 Ne4 6.Nxe4 Bxe4 7.Nd2
>Bg6 8.g3 Nc6 9.e3 a6 10.b4 b5 11.cxb5 axb5 12.Bb2 Na7 13.h4 h6
>14.d5 exd5 15.Bg2 c6 16.O-O f6 17.Re1 Be7 18.Qg4 Kf7 19.h5 Bh7
>20.e4 dxe4 21.Bxe4 Bxe4 22.Nxe4 Nc8 23.Rad1 Ra7 24.Nxf6 gxf6
>25.Qg6+ Kf8 26.Bc1 d5 27.Rd4 Nd6 28.Rg4 Nf7 29.Bxh6+ Ke8 30.Bg7 1-0



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