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

Author: Frank E. Oldham

Date: 16:26:45 08/09/04

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On August 07, 2004 at 17:43:28, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 06, 2004 at 02:02:14, Frank E. Oldham wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>>crafty19.15, Mac dual G5, finds it pretty easily in ply 14
>>by ply 17 the PV matches the game very well
>>
>>               17->  18:31   0.61   1. d5 exd5 2. Bg2 c6 3. O-O f6 4. Re1
>>                                    Be7 5. Qg4 Kf7 6. h5 Bd3 7. e4 dxe4
>>                                    8. Bxe4 Bxe4 9. Nxe4 d5 10. Rad1
>
>I gave movei a long time but even after more than 2 hours of search it can only
>see minimal advantage for white not from the root position but from the position
>after 1.d5 exd5 2.Bg2 c6 3.0-0
>It suggests Rg8
>when the score was near 0 in all the last iterations
>
>[D]r2qkb1r/n2p1pp1/2p3bp/1p1p4/1P5P/P3P1P1/1B1N1PB1/R2Q1RK1 b kq - 0 16
>
>depth=18 -0.01 h8g8 f1e1 f8e7 h4h5 g6h7 e3e4 d5e4 d2e4 d7d5 e4c5 a7c8 a3a4 b5a4
>a1a4 a8a4 d1a4 d8d6 b2d4
>
>Uri

from your starting position, crafty19.15 still thinks Black should play f6
               17->  25:58   0.84   1. ... f6 2. Re1 Bf7 3. e4 Be7 4. exd5
                                    O-O 5. Nb3 Bd6 6. Na5 Bc7 7. dxc6 Bxa5
                                    8. cxd7 Bb6 9. Bxa8 Qxa8 10. Re7 (s=2)

when asked to search Black Rg8, it finds more than 1 pawn advantage for White
               13->  18.25   0.93   1. ... Rg8 2. h5 Bh7 3. Bd4 f5 4. Nf3
                                    Nc8 5. Qd3 Nd6 6. Rfd1 Nc4 7. Ne5 Be7
               14->   1:43   1.04   1. ... Rg8 2. Qg4 Be7 3. Rfe1 h5 4.
                                    Qf4 f5 5. a4 Qb8 6. Be5 d6 7. Bd4 Qd8
                                    8. axb5 Nxb5 9. Rxa8 Qxa8
               15->   3:42   0.97   1. ... Rg8 2. h5 Bh7 3. e4 dxe4 4.
                                    Nxe4 d5 5. Nd2 Bd6 6. Rc1 Kf8 7. Bd4
                                    Bd3 8. Re1 Qd7 9. Qf3
               16->  15:05   1.00   1. ... Rg8 2. Bd4 f5 3. Qb3 Nc8 4.
                                    e4 fxe4 5. Nxe4 Bf7 6. Nc5 g5 7. Qe3+
                                    Ne7 8. Bh3 g4 9. Bg2 d6 10. Ne6 Bxe6
                                    11. Qxe6
               17->  24:31   1.03   1. ... Rg8 2. Bd4 f5 3. Qb3 Bf7 4.
                                    a4 Be6 5. Ra3 Kf7 6. Rfa1 Nc8 7. axb5
                                    Rb8 8. Ra5 Be7 9. Qc3 Rxb5 10. Rxb5
                                    cxb5

Frank



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