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Subject: Re: Junior's Tactical Blind Spot?!?

Author: blass uri

Date: 00:51:09 01/11/99

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On January 10, 1999 at 06:26:53, Amir Ban wrote:

>On January 10, 1999 at 01:32:03, Len Eisner wrote:
>
>>I reached this position in a game against Junior 5 and Junior played hxg? which
>>loses to Qf5!.  How did Junior miss fxg holding the position?  It seems like an
>>obvious tactical mistake.
>>
>>1rq1r1k1/2p1bpp1/p1Qp4/3Np3/1PP3b1/P2PP1p1/3B1P1P/R1R3K1 w - - 0 1
>>
>>Len
>
>
>It's not that obvious, is it ? I see the continuation (1. hxg3) 1...Qf5 2. Qxc7
>Bf8

Junior5 prefers 2...Bf3 with evaluation -2.48/17 and black is winning
for example 3.Nxe7+ Rxe7 4.Qxb8+ Kh7 5.Qa8 e4 and white cannot prevent checkmate
in a few moves.

2.Nxe7 Rxe7 3.Qe4  is better but I do not like white's position after 3...Qxe4

Uri





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