Author: Zappa
Date: 16:10:14 07/06/05
I feel Ehlvest played an extremely good game, and personally I was very impressed by how accurately he handled himself after Nxb5. He could have made any number of errors, but instead he played very calmly and reached an ending where he had good drawing chances - perhaps even a theoretical draw. However, I do think that a piece down ending is very tough to hold against the computer, and engines that have a very-close-to-draw score are probably wrong. Zappa's score never went below 0.7 during the ending. I really don't think you can say that Ehlvest blundered in an absolute sense during the ending, I just don't think he played actively enough. He took a long time around move 45 or so; that was when he realized he was losing a pawn. His only real tactical mistake was missing Qd8, and Zappa was getting pretty optimistic at that point already. 1. Nc4-d6 Qe7-d8 2. Nd6xf7 Qd8xd1 3. Kh1-h2 Qd1-d7 4. Nf7-e5 Qd7-e8 5. Qc5-c7 Kh 7-h6 6. Kh2-g1 Qe8-f8 7. Ne5-f7 Kh6-h5 8. Qc7-d7 Qf8-c5 9. Kg1-h2 Qc5-c1 10. Qd7 xe6 g6-g5 = (1.23) Depth: 16/38 00:02:02.93 460889kN (3749 KN/s, 11710 split s, 1360 aborts) The best part about this match as far as I am concerned is that Ehlvest is here to win. As soon as he played h5-h4 I knew he was going to try to win every game. His rating may only be 2615, but he is a Soviet trained GM who plays in a lot of open tournaments - not a good way to win rating points. He is not playing anti-computer chess, simply strong moves at every point. Which is why I am also pretty happy about winning, because Ehlvest didn't hold anything back that game :) On the other hand, I'm pretty nervous about the next game. Well, at any rate I'm enjoying the match thoroughly :) I'm always one for new life experiences. anthony
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