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Subject: Re: Why did black resign?

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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