Author: John Merlino
Date: 13:43:42 06/27/05
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On June 27, 2005 at 16:20:49, Drexel,Michael wrote: >On June 27, 2005 at 16:05:45, Drexel,Michael wrote: > >>On June 27, 2005 at 15:37:05, John Merlino wrote: >> >>>On June 27, 2005 at 14:43:15, Eduard Nemeth wrote: >>> >>>>[Event "Man Vs Machine"] >>>>[Site "London"] >>>>[Date "2005.??.??"] >>>>[Round "?"] >>>>[White "Michael Adams"] >>>>[Black "Hydra"] >>>>[Result "0-1"] >>>>[ECO "B42"] >>>>[PlyCount "86"] >>>>[EventDate "2005.??.??"] >>>> >>>>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 Bc5 6. Nb3 Ba7 7. O-O Ne7 8. c4 >>>>d6 9. Nc3 Nbc6 10. Qe2 O-O 11. Be3 e5 12. Rad1 Nd4 13. Bxd4 exd4 14. Nd5 Nc6 >>>>15. f4 Qh4 16. Nd2 Be6 17. Nc7 Rac8 18. Nxe6 fxe6 19. g3 Qe7 20. a3 e5 21. f5 >>>>Nb8 22. Kg2 Nd7 23. b4 Kh8 24. Bc2 Nf6 25. Rc1 Rc7 26. Bb3 Rfc8 27. Rc2 a5 28. >>>>Rfc1 Qe8 29. h3 a4 30. Ba2 Re7 31. c5 dxc5 32. bxc5 Rec7 33. Be6 Rd8 34. Qd3 g6 >>>>35. Kh2 Qc6 36. Qf3 Rf8 37. g4 Qb5 38. Qg3 Qe2+ 39. Qg2 Qe3 40. Qg3 Rxc5 41. >>>>Qxe3 dxe3 42. Nf3 Nxe4 43. Kg2 Kg7 0-1 >>> >>><sigh> >>> >>>Adams was fine until 38.Qg3? allowing the Black Queen to penetrate. >> >>I don´t agree. Black was already in big trouble before 38.Qg3?. >>Chessmaster is way too optimistic. >>Maybe there is a way to draw it for white but OTB against a computer the >>position was hopeless. > >38.Rb1 Qa5 39.fxg6 hxg6 40.Qg3 is the best defence. >So Adams even had the right idea. Probably he was simply tired. > >Michael I agree with that. Qg3 is fine once the Black Queen is off the a6-f1 diagonal. The King seems to like 40.Qg3 g5 then trading off almost everything with 41.Qxe5 Rxc5 42.Rxc5 Qxc5 43.Qxc5 Bxc5 44.Rxb7 Nxg4+ 45.Bxg4 Rf2+ 46.Kg3 Rxd2, ending in this: [D]7k/1R6/8/2b3p1/p2pP1B1/P5KP/3r4/8 w - - 0 47 But even holding this against the silicon beast would be tricky. The King evaluates this position as -0.31 for Black after a little more than two minutes on an AMD 2500. But Black might have the option of 41...Re7! 42.Qxg5 Qc7+ 43.Kh1, and although Black is down two pawns, things are very complicated. Very hard to hold OTB. jm
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