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Subject: Re: Incredible novelty by Pro Deo: analysis wanted!

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 05:28:34 10/25/04

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On October 25, 2004 at 04:10:12, J. Noomen wrote:

>The following game was played in the 6th round of the Dutch Open:
>
>[Event "24th DOCC"]
>[Site "Leiden Ned"]
>[Date "2004.10.17"]
>[Round "6"]
>[White "Pro Deo"]
>[Black "ANT"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[ECO "C42"]
>[PlyCount "77"]
>[EventDate "2004.??.??"]
>
>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Be7 7. O-O Nc6 8. c4
>Nb4 9. Be2 O-O 10. Nc3 Bf5 11. a3 Nxc3 12. bxc3 Nc6 13. Re1 Re8 14. cxd5 Qxd5
>15. Bf4 Rac8 16. h3 Be4
>
>All well known, in the match Leko-Kramnik this was played twice. Leko didn't
>manage to create even a slight edge and switched to 1.d4. Now Pro Deo thought
>for some minutes and responded with an incredible move:
>
>17. Nd2!!??
>
>Just letting black take on g2!! During the game we couldn't believe this is
>correct, but some analysis yesterday revealed that maybe this is a very
>interesting idea! Don't forget that as a Petroff player you want a quiet and
>nice draw, now you are drawn into a pool of crazy complications. As withdrawing
>the bishop is tantamount to saying that 16 ... Be4 is wrong, there is only one
>critical move to consider:
>
>17 ... Bxg2. White responds with 18. Bg4!, threatening the c8 rook and also 19.
>f3! winning the bishop.
>
>Two replies are posssible:
>
>A) 18... Bh1!? 19. f3. This looks good for White, but additional analysis is
>needed.
>
>B) 18... f5 (played by ANT and looks most logical) 19. Be2! (threatening Bc4)
>and again White seems to have very interesting tactical chances. At least after
>an hour of thinking my engines indicate a White advantage.
>
>So what is the truth here!? Is 17. Nd2!? a brilliant novelty, or just a typical
>tactical machine move creating interesting chances?
>
>Please post your analysis!
>
>Jeroen

FEN: 2r1r1k1/ppp1bppp/2n5/3q4/3PbB2/P1P2N1P/4BPP1/R2QR1K1 w - - 0 17

Pro Deo 1.0: (P4 1.8/40 MB hash)
   1	00:00	          21	21.000	-2.35	Lxc7 Txc7
   1	00:00	          47	47.000	-1.32	Se5 Sxe5 Lxe5 Lxg2
   1	00:00	         121	121.000	+0.15	Lb5 Lxf3 Lxc6 Dxc6 Dxf3
   1	00:00	         134	134.000	+0.17	Ld3
   1	00:00	         148	148.000	+0.21	c4
   2	00:00	         332	332.000	+0.17	c4 Df5
   3	00:00	         916	916.000	+0.15	c4 Df5 Dd2
   4	00:00	       2.561	2.561.000	+0.11	c4 Df5 Dd2 Dg6
   5	00:00	      12.441	12.441.000	-0.01	c4 Df5 Dd2 Ld6 Lg3
   5	00:00	      19.030	19.030.000	+0.21	Ld3 Lxf3 Dxf3 Dxf3 gxf3 Sa5 d5
   6	00:00	      43.247	43.247.000	+0.10	Ld3 Lxf3 Dxf3 Dxf3 gxf3 Ld6 Txe8+ Txe8
   7	00:00	     125.584	125.584.000	+0.05	Ld3 Lxf3 Dxf3 Dxf3 gxf3 Ld6 Txe8+ Txe8
Lg5 Se7
   8	00:01	     379.783	379.783.000	+0.05	Ld3 Lxf3 Dxf3 Dxf3 gxf3 Ld6 Txe8+ Txe8
Lg5 Se7
   9	00:03	   1.349.867	674.933	+0.09	Ld3 Lxf3 Dxf3 Dxf3 gxf3 Ld6 Txe8+ Txe8 Le3
a6 c4
  10	00:06	   3.004.541	500.756	+0.09	Ld3 Lxf3 Dxf3 Dxf3 gxf3 Ld6 Txe8+ Txe8 Le3
a6 c4
  10	00:10	   5.265.074	526.507	+0.12	Lg3 Ld6 Sd2 Lg6 Lf3 Dg5 Lg4 Txe1+
  11	00:19	  10.276.717	540.879	+0.07	Lg3 Ld6 Ld3 Lxf3 Dxf3 Dxf3 gxf3 g6 Kf1 Se7
c4
  11	00:22	  11.765.429	534.792	+0.09	Ld3 Lxf3 Dxf3 Dxf3 gxf3 Ld6 Txe8+ Txe8 Le3
Sa5 c4 Sb3 Tb1
  11	00:48	  25.391.131	528.981	+0.10	Le3 Sa5 Da4 b6 c4 Dd6 Se5 Lf6 Lg4 Lxe5
  12	02:04	  64.388.184	519.259	+0.16	Le3 Sa5 Sd2 Lg6 c4 Dd6
  13	03:45	 117.941.926	526.526	+0.13	Le3 Tcd8 Sd2 Lg6 Lf3 Dd7
  13	06:48	 217.525.942	533.151	+0.13	Sd2
  13	07:33	 242.283.015	534.841	+0.37	Sd2 Lxg2 Lg4
  14	08:20	 270.785.615	541.571	-0.04	Sd2 Lxg2 c4 Df5 Lg4 Dxf4 Lxc8 Txc8 Kxg2
Dxd4
  14	11:16	 364.405.295	539.061	+0.12	Le3 Tcd8 Sd2 Lg6





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