Author: Zappa
Date: 07:01:25 07/09/05
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On July 08, 2005 at 17:16:36, Günther Simon wrote:
>On July 08, 2005 at 15:20:50, Arturo Ochoa wrote:
>
>>[Event "Ehlvest-Zappa(C)"]
>>[Site "New York, USA"]
>>[Date "2005.7.8 15:12"]
>>[Round "?"]
>>[White "Zappa(C)"]
>>[Black "GM_Ehlvest"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>[WhiteElo "0"]
>>[BlackElo "0"]
>>[TimeControl "7200+0"]
>>
>>1. e4 g6 2. d4 d6 3. Nc3 c6 4. Be3 Nf6 5. Be2 Nbd7 6. f4 b5 7. a3 Nb6 8. d5 Bb7
>>9. Nf3 a6 10. dxc6 Bxc6 11. Qd4 Na4 12. Nxa4 bxa4 13. Ng5 e6 14. Qc3 Bb7 15. f5
>>exf5 16. Bc4 d5 17. exd5 Bg7 18. Qe5+ Qe7 19. Qxe7+ Kxe7 20. O-O-O Kd7 21. Nxf7
>>Rhe8 22. Rhe1 Ng4 23. Bc5 Ne5 24. Nd6 Nxc4 25. Nxc4 Rad8 26. Re6 Bh6+ 27. Kb1
>>{White wins} 1-0
>
>I completely fail to understand the choice of ...Na4? instead of the natural
>11...Rb8? (BTW it also seems he did not know the thematic d5!, which can bust
>Black in the early stage, if being not carefully after early ...b5 in those
>systems? Does Ehlvest play this kind of Pirc normally?)
>
>Guenther
>
>P.S. this should not diminish Zappas win of course, but I am
>interested in the game itself.
Yes, Na4 was definitely an error. Ehlvest told me after the game that he missed
Ng5. I think after Rb8 (expected by just about everyone) Black is worse, but
not dead. (Zappa would have given itself +0.4 in that case).
A lot of people were flaming me over Zappa picking Qc3-e5xe7 rather than Bc5,
but I really think its a matter of taste. White has a solid extra pawn, good
activity, and potentially connected passers with c2-c4, so I think Black is just
lost either way. In some ways Zappa's move might actually be more human. It
should be noted that the diference in score between Qe5+ and Bc5 was 0.01 :)
Now Qc3 instead of f5 might have been a real error. We shall see what Ehlvest
has to say when he annotates the games.
anthony
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