Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:04:28 01/11/99
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On January 11, 1999 at 15:08:01, Laurence Chen wrote: >On January 11, 1999 at 14:53:55, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On January 11, 1999 at 14:04:50, Rob Shultz wrote: >> >>>I was going over the following game and can not figure out why black resigned. >>>Maybe black lost on time or moves are missing... Anyone have any info about >>>this game? >>> >>>W: Stripunsky,A 2475 >>>B: Granda Zuniga,J 2630 >>>New York Open 3/17/98 >>> >>>1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 Nbd7 7.f4 Qb6 8.Qd2 Qxb2 >>>9.Rb1 Qa3 10.Bxf6 gxf6 11.Nd5 Rb8 12.Rb3 Qa4 13.Bxa6 e5 14.Rb4 Qxa2 15.Nb3 bxa6 >>>16.Nc3 1-0 >>Black us up (according to Crafty's analysis) by a major piece and nearly a pawn >>besides. Here is a likely scenario: >>12-> 2:08 3.70 1. ... Qb2 2. Ra4 Bh6 3. Nd1 Qb1 4. >> Ra1 Rxb3 5. Rxb1 Rxb1 6. Qxd6 Bxf4 >> 7. c4 >>Why prolong to the bitter end? >Perhaps Black won the game, and White resigned instead, the 1-0 is a typo, it >should be 0-1. I don't think that Black as a GM would lost and even resigned in >this position. Black is up a piece and pawn !!! Now I see the extreme puzzlement of the original poster. My dyslexic reading of 1-0 was 0-1. You can see from my comments above that I knew who was ahead, but somehow read the result exactly backwards.
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