Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:37:26 09/28/04
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On September 28, 2004 at 13:19:28, John Merlino wrote: >On September 28, 2004 at 12:27:32, martin fierz wrote: > >>On September 28, 2004 at 11:12:41, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>On September 28, 2004 at 09:22:26, Tony Hedlund wrote: >>> >>>>[Event "SSDF"] >>>>[Site "Tony Hedlund"] >>>>[Date "2004.09.27"] >>>>[Round "1"] >>>>[White "Deep Junior 8 A1200"] >>>>[Black "Crafty 19.17 A1200"] >>>>[Result "1-0"] >>>>[ECO "C89"] >>>>[Opening "Ruy Lopez"] >>>>[Time "17:26:31"] >>>>[Variation "Marshall, Main Line"] >>>>[TimeControl "40/7200:40/7200:7200"] >>>>[Termination "normal"] >>>>[PlyCount "104"] >>>>[WhiteType "program"] >>>>[BlackType "program"] >>>> >>>>1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 O-O 8.c3 d5 9.exd5 >>>>Nxd5 10.Nxe5 Nxe5 11.Rxe5 c6 12.d4 Bd6 13.Re1 Qh4 14.g3 Qh3 15.Re4 g5 16.Qe2 Nf6 >>> >>>Who made crafty's book? >>> >>>-- >>>GCP >> >>i don't understand - that seems like a normal marshall line... 15...g5 is >>normal, and on move 16 you have a choice between some moves, but Nf6 is probably >>one of them (if you go by GM games). >> >>cheers >> martin > >Indeed. This game copies the moves all the way up to 21.b3 from Ponomariov-Adams >in the SuperGM tournament in 2002 which White also won. Adams played 21...Nxe4 >and Crafty played 21...cxb3. > >So did Black really go wrong in the opening, or were both of these games lost >later? Analysis of the position after 21.b3 shows Black with a small advantage >(CM9_SKR shows 21...Rac8 with a score of -0.15 for Black): > >[D]r4rk1/5p2/p2b1n1p/1p3bp1/2pPR3/1PP2PPq/P1BN1Q1P/R1B3K1 b - - 0 21 > >[Event "SuperGM"] >[Site "Linares ESP"] >[Date "2002.03.04"] >[Round "9"] >[White "Ponomariov, R"] >[Black "Adams, Mi"] >[TimeControl "-"] >[Result "1-0"] >[ECO "C89"] >[WhiteELO "2727"] >[BlackELO "2742"] > >1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 O-O 8.c3 >d5 9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Nxe5 Nxe5 11.Rxe5 c6 12.d4 Bd6 13.Re1 Qh4 14.g3 Qh3 >15.Re4 g5 16.Qe2 Nf6 17.Nd2 Bf5 18.f3 c5 19.Qf2 c4 20.Bc2 h6 21.b3 cxb3 >22.axb3 Rfc8 23.Bb2 Bb4 24.Re5 Bxc2 25.cxb4 Bg6 26.Rc5 Re8 27.Nf1 Rad8 >28.d5 Nd7 29.Ne3 h5 30.f4 h4 31.f5 hxg3 32.hxg3 Bh5 33.d6 Re4 34.Rac1 >Nxc5 35.bxc5 Kh7 36.Bf6 Rg8 37.d7 Rh4 38.Qg2 Bf3 39.Qxh3 Rxh3 40.Kf2 g4 >41.Nf1 Rh5 42.d8=Q Rxd8 43.Bxd8 Rxf5 44.Ne3 Rh5 45.Bh4 1-0 > >jm Opening lines looked fine to me. With this book, learning should avoid lines that cause problems, quickly, although I think black was fine early in the game. I will try to look over them tonight but in a couple of the games I have seen perhaps against Ruffian, Crafty was in a better position, so I need to see what it did to break the position and turn it into a loss...
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