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Subject: Re: Interesting Position from 1834 game in London

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 08:09:55 09/05/04

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On September 04, 2004 at 23:47:22, Michael Neish wrote:

>On September 04, 2004 at 21:39:53, Cliff Sears wrote:
>
>>[d] 4rrk1/1b2bppp/2q5/p1P1p3/3pN3/5P2/PPB1Q1PP/2RR2K1 b - - 0 20
>
>>>Black to move and the move made by Black was "f5" "Black immediately begins
>>the decisive advance. Note that he spends no time on prophylaxis against
>>White's Queenside play, confident that his pawn-storm will sweep everything
>>from its path"
>>
>>Black went on to win.
>
>For your information, Ruffian 1.0.1 likes Rc8 up to depth 11, then cat depth 12
>changes to Qc7, to Rb8 and finally to Ba6, giving a score of +0.55 in favour of
>Black.  If it changes again I'll let you know.
>
>BUT,
>
>1) Is f4 the best move, and White failed to find the best resistance?
>
>2) How did the actual game continue?
>
>A sample line with Ruffian goes as follows:
>
>1) ...   f5
>2) Qc4+  Qd5
>3) Bb3   Qxc4
>4) Bxc4+ Kh8
>5) Nd6   Bxd6
>6) cxd6  Rd8
>7) f4
>
>at which point it thinks White is doing pretty well, +1.09.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Mike.

Obviously not Qd5.

anthony



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