Author: gerold daniels
Date: 18:30:44 07/06/05
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On July 06, 2005 at 19:10:14, Zappa wrote: >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 Good evening Anthony. Thanks for the games being played. This one today was very good chess. Gerold.
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