Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 01:37:28 12/31/04
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On December 30, 2004 at 17:58:19, Torstein Hall wrote: >On December 29, 2004 at 11:39:10, Misael Banuelos wrote: > >>The next annotated game was published at the chess column of the Spanish >>newspaper 'El Pais' on December 24, and it was written by chess journalist and >>Fide Master Leontxo Garcia. >> >>Yesterday I decided to post this message in this forum and I have translated it >>into English. I hope I didn't commit too many mistakes in this language. >> >>Regards. >> >>MB >> >>--- >> >> >>[D] 6k1/6b1/1B1p2qp/3Pp1p1/2r1p3/3n2P1/P2QB2P/R5K1 w - - 0 27 >> >>Position after 26...Rxc4 >> >>*Silicon is silly* >> >>White: Gelfand. >>Black: Sutovski. >>King's Indian Defence. >>Pamplona, December 22, 2004. >> >>In the opening round Israeli Boris Gelfand manages very well a position that >>computers don't understand yet. >> >>1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 0-0 6.Nf3 e5 7.Be3 h6 8.0-0 Ng4 9.Bc1 >>Nd7 10.d5 Ngf6 11.Be3 Ng4 12.Bd2 f5 13.g3 fxe4 14.Nh4 g5 15.Ng6 Nxf2 16.Rxf2 >>Rxf2 17.Kxf2 Qf6+ 18.Kg1 Qxg6 19.Nb5 Nc5 20.Nxc7 Rb8 21.Be3 b6 >> >>Black's advantange, a pawn, is very little important: the bishop on g7 is almost >>useless and the pawns on a7, b6 and d6 are weak. >> >>22.Nb5 Nd3?! >> >>As the reader is going to understand very soon, it was better 22...a6 >> >>23.Nxa7 Nxb2 24.Qd2 Nd3 25.Nxc8 Rxc8 26.Bxb6 Rxc4 (diagram) >> >>Gelfand has got a clear advantage, thanks to his passed pawn on a2. But chess >>programs don't appreciate it, not even after a long calculation time. It is due >>to the so called 'horizon effect': Silicon is uncapable of understanding that >>the little pawn on a2 is a potential queen, something that any chess player of >>certain skill sees it in tenths of second. >> >>27.a4! Qe8 28.a5! Ra4 >> >>The computer shows that 28...Qb5 is advantageous for Black, without noticing >>that after 29.Be3 > >Here Hiarcs 9 suggest 29..Ra4 with a 0.00 score that seems logical to me as the >pawn now looks like it is stopped. >This instead of the sufggestion 29...Qxd5 etc. etc. 0.00 score isn´t logical. White is clearly better after 30.Qc3!, probably winning. 28...Qb5 is of course not a mistake. After the game continuation 28...Ra4 the game was over soon. Michael > >Torstein > >30.a6 Rc8 31.a7 Qa8 32.Bg4 Rf8 33.Be6+ Kh8 34.Qa2, with >>the threat of Bd5, 34...Nb4 35.Qb3, Black must resign. >> >>29.Qd1 Rxa1 30.Qxa1 Qb5 31.Be3 Qb3 32.Bd1! >> >>The last trick was 32.a6 Nf4 33.a7 Qxe3+ 34.Kh1 Qxe2 35.a8=Q+ Kh7 36.gxf4, and >>now both 36...Qf3+ and 36...exf4 are drawn. >> >>32...Qb4 33.Bg4 Nc5 34.a6! Nxa6 35.Qxa6 Qe1+ 36.Kg2 Qxe3 37.Be6+ Kh7 38.Bf5+ Kg8 >>39.Qc8+ >> >>Sutovski resigned in view of an imminent mate.
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