Author: Telmo C. Escobar
Date: 22:37:33 05/12/05
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A second test game: [Event "Computer chess game"] [Site "Athlon-1200"] [Date "2005.05.13"] [Round "-"] [White "Spike 0.9a"] [Black "Ruffian 1.0.1"] [Result "1-0"] [TimeControl "300"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O d6 6. c3 Be7 7. Re1 O-O 8. d4 Bd7 9. Nbd2 Re8 10. Nf1 Bf8 11. Bg5 b5 12. Bb3 h6 13. Bh4 exd4 14. cxd4 g5 15. Nxg5 hxg5 16. Bxg5 Rb8 17. Ng3 Be7 18. Qd2 Nh7 19. Bxe7 Qxe7 20. Rac1 Rbc8 21. Nh5 Kh8 22. f4 Nd8 23. Ng3 Qh4 24. e5 Qh6 25. Bc2 d5 26. Bf5 Ne6 27. Rf1 Nhf8 28. Bb1 Ng7 29. Qf2 Qh4 30. b4 Nfe6 31. Rc3 c6 32. Qd2 Qg4 33. Rff3 Kg8 34. Ne2 Qh4 35. Rh3 Qd8 36. Rcg3 Ng5 37. Rh6 Kf8 38. Rxg5 Ne6 39. Rg3 Ke7 40. f5 Rf8 41. fxe6 Bxe6 42. Nf4 1-0 It's interesting that Spike again sacrifices a bishop for two pawns. This time it was clearly a "positional" sacrifice. Maybe he rates king safety very high, maybe he -like me, or another human- has some "knowledge" built in, suggesting that these kind of bishop sacrifices (killing both Black "g" and "h" pawns) are usually worth considering. Watching the game was interesting because both players had different opinions about the position after 16.Bxg5, each evaluating his own position as about 1 pawn up. This was so for many moves more, until Ruffian gradually started to realize that the situation was worrysome. Telmo
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