Author: A. Steen
Date: 21:57:00 11/20/05
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On November 20, 2005 at 13:06:24, Jouni Uski wrote: >I am 99,999% sure after Bc3 Hydra wins. > >Jouni Unfortunately, that makes you 99.999% wrong. [Event "II Man vs Machine, Bilbao"] [Site "?"] [Date "2005.11.20"] [Round "?"] [White "Hydra"] [Black "Kasimyanov"] [Result "*"] [Annotator "Hob"] [PlyCount "59"] [EventDate "2005.??.??"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. Be3 Na6 8. O-O c6 9. d5 Ng4 10. Bg5 f6 11. Bh4 c5 12. Ne1 Nh6 13. a3 Bd7 14. Nd3 g5 15. Bg3 Qe7 16. f3 f5 17. Bf2 f4 18. b4 b6 19. h3 Nf7 20. Rb1 h5 21. Rb2 Nh6 22. Be1 Bf6 23. Nf2 Kh8 24. Qd3 Rg8 25. Nb5 Rg6 26. Bd1 Rag8 27. Nxa7 g4 28. fxg4 Bh4 29. Nc6 Qg7 30. Bc3 * [D]6rk/3b2q1/npNp2rn/2pPp2p/1PP1PpPb/P1BQ3P/1R3NP1/3B1RK1 b - - 0 30 At this point the game is a draw, whatever delusional chess engines may imply with faulty evaluations. :) The game proceeded without error by Hydra (white) with: 30. .. hxg4 31.Nxg4 Nxg4 32.Bxg4 Bxg4 33.Rxf4 Bh5 34.Qf1 by which point even the engines agree it is pretty dead. For example, after the obvious (stops 7th rank invasion by W) 34 .. B-f6- [D]6rk/6q1/npNp1br1/2pPp2b/1PP1PR2/P1B4P/1R4P1/5QK1 w - - 0 35 and even the stupidest engines see it is 0.00 or close. Unwise to be "99.999% sure" of anything? 100% perhaps. :) Best, A.S.
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