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Subject: Re: Almasi shocks Shredder ...

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 01:07:43 08/11/05

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On August 11, 2005 at 04:05:19, Günther Simon wrote:

>On August 11, 2005 at 03:59:42, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On August 11, 2005 at 03:19:55, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>
>>>On August 11, 2005 at 02:45:07, Madhavan wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 11, 2005 at 01:07:58, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>... due to its very bad opening play. Such
>>>>>silly things can/should never happen in
>>>>>classical chess. It's just ridiculous.
>>>>>Kurt
>>>>
>>>>How come Shredder won several tournament titles?
>>>>How do you know Almasi plays decent chess openeings?
>>>
>>>     In a German forum it was reported that
>>>     "Shredder had after 3 moves a much better
>>>     and after 10 moves a won position". This
>>>     means for me that FRC (Chess960) even on
>>>     such a top level is somewhat ridiculous.
>>>     Kurt
>>
>>Or maybe it means that slower time control than classical chess should be used
>>in FRC to prevent this type of errors(at least in the high level).
>>
>>Uri
>
>I thought the games were just rapid chess anyway?
>
>Guenther

      Hi Günther
      Here is the game. I do not know the time control used.
      Kurt


[D]rbbnknqr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBBNKNQR

[Event "CCM5 - Mensch vs Maschine"]
[Site "Mainz"]
[Date "2005/8/10"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Shredder"]
[Black "Almasi, Zoltan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[FEN "rbbnknqr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBBNKNQR"]
[Board "2"]
[Input "DGT1551"]
[Owner "schach.com"]

1. d4 d5 2. c3 Nd7 3. Ng3 c6 4. e4 dxe4 5. Qf1 e5 6. Bxe4 exd4 7. Qe2 Ne6 8.
O-O Qf8 9. Nf5 Nf6 10. Bf3 d3 11. Qxd3 Qc5 12. Re1 O-O 13. b4 Qb6 14. a4 Qc7
15. g3 a5 16. Qc4 axb4 17. cxb4 Rxa4 18. Rxa4 b5 19. Qh4 bxa4 20. Nxg7 Nxg7 21.
Qxf6 Qd6 22. Qc3 Re8 23. Rxe8+ Nxe8 24. Bf4 1-0





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