Author: Dom Leste
Date: 11:59:00 05/21/05
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Another great game from Topalov hopefully he can wint he qualifying match for
the world champs so CMXI has him as a persoanlity :) His gettings closer to
2800!
On May 21, 2005 at 11:07:11, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>Topalov has played a number of flashy games in this tournament. Here is his
>latest:
>
>[Event "MTel Masters"]
>[Site "Sofia, Bulgaria"]
>[Date "2005.05.21"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "GM_Topalov"]
>[Black "GM_Ponomariov"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[WhiteElo "2778"]
>[BlackElo "2695"]
>[Opening "Queen's Indian: Nimzovich variation (exaggerated fianchetto)"]
>[ECO "E15"]
>[NIC "QI.05"]
>[Time "07:09:59"]
>[TimeControl "7200+0"]
>
>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. b3 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Be7 7. Nc3 O-O 8.
>Rc1 c6 9. e4 d5 10. e5 Ne4 11. Bd3 Nxc3 12. Rxc3 c5 13. dxc5 bxc5 14. h4 h6
>15. Bb1 f5 16. exf6 Bxf6 17. Qc2 d4 18. Ng5 hxg5 19. hxg5 dxc3 20. Bf4 Kf7
>21. Qg6+ Ke7 22. gxf6+ Rxf6 23. Qxg7+ Rf7 24. Bg5+ Kd6 25. Qxf7 Qxg5 26. Rh7
>Qe5+ 27. Kf1 Kc6 28. Qe8+ Kb6 29. Qd8+ Kc6 30. Be4+ {White wins} 1-0
>
>What do the engines think of the following position:
>
>[D]rn1q1rk1/p5p1/b3pb1p/2pp4/2P4P/1PR2NP1/P2B1P2/1B1QK2R w K - 0 17
>
>Ruffian doesn't do too badly, but its score is not as convincing as one might
>expect. I haven't looked at very closely myself, so I can't say whether Ruffian
>groks fully or not.
>
>Ruffian 1.0.1 UCI 13 MB:
>D1 00:00 -2.61 cxd5 Bxc3 Bxc3 exd5
>D1 00:00 -2.29 a3 Bxc3 Bxc3 dxc4 Qxd8 Rxd8
>D1 00:00 -2.23 h5 Bxc3 Bxc3 dxc4 Qxd8 Rxd8
>D1 00:00 -2.09 Bc2 Bxc3 Bxc3 dxc4 Qxd8 Rxd8
>D1 00:00 -1.91 Bd3 Bxc3 Bxc3
>D1 00:00 -0.50 Rc1
>D1 00:00 -0.28 Re3
>D2 00:00 -0.80 Re3 Bb2
>D3 00:00 -0.36 Re3 Bd4 Nxd4 cxd4
>D4 00:00 -0.42 Re3 Bd4 Nxd4 cxd4 Rxe6 dxc4
>D5 00:00 -0.42 Re3 Bd4 Nxd4 cxd4 Rxe6 dxc4
>D6 00:00 -0.51 Re3 Qb6 cxd5 exd5 Bf5 d4 Re6
>D6 00:00 -0.43 Qc2 Bxc3 Qh7 Kf7 Bxc3 d4 Be4 Rh8
>D7 00:00 -0.07 Qc2 Bxc3 Qh7 Kf7 Bxc3 Rg8 Qg6 Kf8 Qxe6 d4
>D8 00:01 0.28 Qc2 Bxc3 Qh7 Kf7 Bxc3 Rg8 Qg6 Kf8 Qxe6 d4 Be4
>D9 00:02 0.23 Qc2 Bxc3 Bxc3 d4 Qh7 Kf7 Be4 dxc3 Qg6 Kg8 Qxe6 Kh8 Bxa8
>D10+ 00:06 0.58 Qc2
>D10 00:14 0.76 Qc2 d4 Qh7 Kf7 Rd3 Bb7 h5 Ke7 0-0 Bxf3 Rxf3 Kd7
>D11 00:40 0.67 Qc2 Bb7 Qh7 Kf7 Bg6 Ke7 Bh5 dxc4 Rxc4 Qd5 Qg6 Ba6 Rc1 Bd3 Qg4
>D12 02:06 0.90 Qc2 d4 Ng5 Re8 Qh7 Kf8 Rf3 Nd7 Ne4 Bb7 Bd3 Rb8 0-0 e5
>D13 05:29 1.19 Qc2 d4 Ng5 hxg5 hxg5 dxc3 Rh8 Kf7 Qg6 Ke7 gxf6 gxf6 Rh7 Kd6
>Bf4 Kc6 Qe4 Kb6 Bc7 Qxc7 Rxc7 Kxc7 Qxa8 Kb6
>
>The Final position:
>[D]rn1Q4/p6R/b1k1p3/2p1q3/2P1B3/1Pp3P1/P4P2/5K2 b - - 8 30
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