Author: Matthew Herman
Date: 13:57:10 01/11/99
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On January 11, 1999 at 16:04:28, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. It was a typo in the gamescore! Stripunsky actually won brilliantly.. it was misreported in chesslife (wrong score). Instead of Nc3??? Qc3! and black resigned!
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