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Subject: Re: Interesting game

Author: Richard Pijl

Date: 15:50:52 09/18/04

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On September 18, 2004 at 08:50:40, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>On September 18, 2004 at 07:58:29, Richard Pijl wrote:
>
>>I've enjoyed watching the game posted below very much.
>>Some of the interesting positions:
>>
>>[D] r3k1r1/pbpnbp2/2q1p2p/1pP5/3P2pN/3B2B1/PP1Q1PPP/4RK1R b q -
>>Position after 20.Re1.
>>The Baron played 20..Nxc5!? here with a score of +0.05. Not sure whether it is
>>the strongest move, but it is a interesting one! Are there more engines that
>>consider it?
>
>20...Nxc5! is without any doubt a great human-like sacrifice.
>I do not think many engines would play it at tournament time control.
>Unfortunately 22...Qd7? was not the best move.
>Black has 22...b4!? or probably even stronger 22...Rg5!-+ at his disposal.
>
When giving the Baron a bit more time it agrees. 45+10 is a bit fast for this
type of positions!

>In the game I don“t see the point of 25.b3?.

The only thing I can think of is defense of the pawn on a2. Baron wasn't
impressed by it though.
>25.Rge1 looks much better with unclear position.

For completeness: here is the Baron's thinking (on a single CPU P4-2.4, not the
AMD 2000+ MP dual it was playing on):

 ply       time        nodes   score  pv
  4( 5)+   0:00.33     10862   +1.19  Be7-g5 (f2-f4) (g4xf3) (Qd2-a5)
  4( 5)&   0:00.33     12617   +1.63  Be7-g5 d4-d5 Bg5xd2 d5xc6
  4(11).   0:00.38     19971   +1.63  Be7-g5 d4-d5 Bg5xd2 d5xc6
  5(12)-   0:00.66     52761   +1.28  Be7-g5 (Qd2-b4) (Nd7xc5) (d4xc5) (Qc6-d5)
  5(12)&   0:01.10    102222   +0.40  Qc6-d5 Bd3-e4 Qd5-c4 Qd2-d3 Qc4xd3 Be4xd3
                                      a7-a6
  5(12).   0:01.15    109166   +0.40  Qc6-d5 Bd3-e4 Qd5-c4 Qd2-d3 Qc4xd3 Be4xd3
                                      a7-a6
  6(11)&   0:01.54    173943   +0.39  Qc6-d5 Bd3-e4 Qd5-c4 Qd2-d3 Bb7-d5 b2-b3
                                      Qc4xd3
  6(12).   0:02.03    264716   +0.39  Qc6-d5 Bd3-e4 Qd5-c4 Qd2-d3 Bb7-d5 b2-b3
                                      Qc4xd3
  7(13)&   0:05.82    965741   +0.20  Be7xh4 Bd3-e4 Bh4-g5 Be4xc6 Bg5xd2 Bc6xb7
                                      Bd2xe1
  7(13).   0:07.25   1256374   +0.20  Be7xh4 Bd3-e4 Bh4-g5 Be4xc6 Bg5xd2 Bc6xb7
                                      Bd2xe1
  8(13)&   0:07.58   1329965   +0.08  Be7xh4 Bd3-e4 Bh4-g5 Qd2-c2 Qc6-a6 c5-c6
                                      Bb7xc6 Be4xc6 O-O-O
  8(15).   0:14.17   2692706   +0.08  Be7xh4 Bd3-e4 Bh4-g5 Qd2-c2 Qc6-a6 c5-c6
                                      Bb7xc6 Be4xc6 O-O-O
  9(14)&   0:14.94   2876538   -0.19  Be7xh4 Bd3-e4 Bh4-g5 Qd2-c2 Qc6-a6 c5-c6
                                      Bb7xc6 Be4xc6 O-O-O Kf1-g1
  9(15)&   0:27.74   5632209   +0.03  Nd7xc5 d4xc5 O-O-O Qd2-c2 Rd8xd3 Qc2xd3
                                      Rg8-d8 Qd3-e3 Be7xh4 Rh1-g1
  9(15).   0:43.88   8922655   +0.03  Nd7xc5 d4xc5 O-O-O Qd2-c2 Rd8xd3 Qc2xd3
                                      Rg8-d8 Qd3-e3 Be7xh4 Rh1-g1
 10(17)&   0:54.37  11261983   +0.03  Nd7xc5 d4xc5 O-O-O Qd2-c2 Rd8xd3 Qc2xd3
                                      Rg8-d8 Qd3-e3 Be7xh4 Rh1-g1 Bh4xg3
 10(17).   1:46.06  21488534   +0.03  Nd7xc5 d4xc5 O-O-O Qd2-c2 Rd8xd3 Qc2xd3
                                      Rg8-d8 Qd3-e3 Be7xh4 Rh1-g1 Bh4xg3
 11(19)&   2:22.53  28926946   +0.03  Nd7xc5 d4xc5 O-O-O Qd2-c2 Rd8xd3 Qc2xd3
                                      Rg8-d8 Qd3-e3 Be7xh4 Rh1-g1 Bh4xg3 h2xg3
 11(19).   4:39.90  56456101   +0.03  Nd7xc5 d4xc5 O-O-O Qd2-c2 Rd8xd3 Qc2xd3
                                      Rg8-d8 Qd3-e3 Be7xh4 Rh1-g1 Bh4xg3 h2xg3
 12(19)&   6:50.40  85165197   +0.28  Nd7xc5 d4xc5 O-O-O Qd2-c2 Rd8xd3 Qc2xd3
                                      Rg8-d8 Qd3-b3 Be7xh4 Bg3xh4 Qc6xg2 Kf1-e2
                                      Qg2-e4 Qb3-e3
 12(19).  10:02.04 124477533   +0.28  Nd7xc5 d4xc5 O-O-O Qd2-c2 Rd8xd3 Qc2xd3
                                      Rg8-d8 Qd3-b3 Be7xh4 Bg3xh4 Qc6xg2 Kf1-e2
                                      Qg2-e4 Qb3-e3
 13(22)&  14:12.66 180120400   +0.41  Nd7xc5 d4xc5 O-O-O Qd2-c2 Rd8xd3 Qc2xd3
                                      Rg8-d8 Qd3-e3 Be7xh4 Rh1-g1 Bh4xg3 h2xg3
                                      Qc6-d5 Re1-e2

Richard.



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