Author: Sean Empey
Date: 20:01:49 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. 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 Storm v2.0.9 finds it in 1:46 seconds at depth 12 with a score of +0.50 and holds it. I didn't go farther than depth 15 but the score kept rising fast. -Sean
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