Author: David Shanholtzer
Date: 04:59:05 11/25/05
Greets: Someone once said something to the effect that often brilliancies lie in the notes. Last year the following game (Crafty 17.14 - Junior 5) was played on this somewhat dated Dell computer (866 MHz Intel cpu, 512 Megs RAM). I've just now gotten around to having Fritz 8 do some analysis on this one, and Fritz came up with the following continuation for white's 18th move. [D] rq2k1r1/pp1bp1b1/n3N1p1/4p1Pp/2P5/2N4P/PP2Q3/2KR1B1R w q - 0 18 Crafty played 18.Nxg7+. Fritz 8 suggested: 18.Rxd7! Kxd7 19.c5! and now A. 19...Nc7 20.Qd2+ Ke8 (On 20...Kxe6? 21.Bc4+ and mate in 3.) 21.Nxc7+ Qxc7 22.Qd5 Rd8 ( if 22...Rf8? 23.Bb5+; 22...Rh8 23.Bb5+ Kf8 24.Bc4 mating soon.) 23.Qxg8+ Kd7 (23...Bf8? 24.Bb5+) 24.Qxg7 Qxc5 25.Kb1!+- B. 19...Kxe6 20.Qc4+ Kd7 21.Qd5+ Kc8 22.Bxa6 (if 22.Qxg8+ Kc7 23.Qxg7+-) 22...bxa6 23.Rd1 Qc7 24.Qxa8+ Qb8 25.Qc6+ Qc7 26.Qe6+ +- The full game follows: (Junior 5 played some rather odd appearing moves before getting it's act together and winning in the endgame) ========================================================================= Crafty 17.14 (2378) - Junior 5.0 (2424) [E61] 04Dayffd07o Riverdale (1.4), 19.02.2004 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.d4 g6 4.Nc3 Bf5 5.h3 Bg7 6.g4 Bd7 7.Bf4 Na6 8.e4 h5 9.g5 Nh7 10.e5 c5 11.Qe2 cxd4 12.Nxd4 Rg8 13.0-0-0 dxe5 14.Bxe5 Nxg5 15.f4 f6 16.fxg5 fxe5 17.Ne6 Qb8 18.Nxg7+ Rxg7 19.Bg2 Nb4 20.Kb1 Bf5+ 21.Be4 Qc8 22.Bxf5 Qxf5+ 23.Ne4 Rf7 24.c5 Nc6 25.Rdf1 Qe6 26.Rxf7 Qxf7 27.Rd1 Rd8 28.Re1 Qf5 29.Qe3 Nb4 30.Qe2 Qxh3 31.Qb5+ Nc6 32.Kc1 Qh4 33.Qe2 Nd4 34.Qf1 Qf4+ 35.Qxf4 exf4 36.Nd6+ Kf8 37.Nxb7 Rb8 38.c6 Nxc6 39.Nc5 Rb4 40.b3 Kf7 41.Nd3 Rd4 42.Kc2 Nb4+ 43.Nxb4 Rxb4 44.Kd3 Rb5 45.Ke4 Rf5 46.Rc1 Ke6 47.Rd1 f3 48.Ke3 f2 49.Rf1 h4 50.b4 Ke5 51.Rxf2 Rxf2 52.Kxf2 Kd4 53.a4 e5 54.b5 e4 0-1 Quite a nice continuation, I thought.
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