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Subject: Re: Hydra - Nickel, Game 3, position after 17.Bb5

Author: Mark Ryan

Date: 15:51:21 08/25/05

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On August 25, 2005 at 12:09:58, Arno Nickel wrote:

>My 3rd correspondence chess game with Hydra (this time Hydra Scylla) is online
>now. Everybody is welcomed to watch the game semi-live on the
>www.Chessfriend.com server. The time schedule is about 2 days per move.
>
>This is Hydra's introduction to game 3 on its website:
>"Game 3 has been started between the correspondence chess GM Arno Nickel and
>Hydra. This is the 3rd game of the series of 4 games agreed between the 2
>opponents, last 2 games has been won by the GM Arno Nickel and this time the
>Hydra team is more enthusiastic about the game and hoping to make a win, Hydra
>project manager Muhammad Nasir Ali commented on the match, "Correspondence chess
>is certainly different from the classical chess and we found it very good to
>play against a GM, the last 2 games helped us a lot to learn about the
>correspondence chess and with this we are ready to play the next two games and
>we hope we will perform better. Though we did much more better then the Arno's
>predictions about the Michael Adam's match and we hope Hydra will do its best
>against him as well in the coming games."
>
>Hydra,Scylla - GM Nickel,A [C42]
>Hydra - Nickel, 1st. Corr. Match 2004/5 Abu Dhabi / Berlin (3), 11.07.2005
>1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.0-0 Be7 8.c4
>[ Hydra declines my invitation to 8.Re1 Bg4 9.c3 f5 10.Qb3 0-0 11.Nbd2 Na5
>12.Qc2 Nc6 13.b4 a6 14.Rb1N as in Hydra-Michael Adams/Man vs Machine 2005/1-0]
>8...Nb4 9.Be2 0-0 10.Nc3 Be6 11.Ne5 f6 12.Nf3 Kh8 13.Re1 f5 14.a3 Nc6 15.cxd5
>Bxd5 16.Bf4 Bf6 17.Bb5 Line
>(25.8.2005)

Here is the position after 17.Bb5:

[D]r2q1r1k/ppp3pp/2n2b2/1B1b1p2/3PnB2/P1N2N2/1P3PPP/R2QR1K1 b




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