Author: John Merlino
Date: 09:40:09 01/07/06
Go up one level in this thread
On January 07, 2006 at 11:16:04, Albert Silver wrote:
>In some testing against Toga in 20 min. games, Rybka played a strong maneuver,
>and temporary pawn sac that preliminary analysis suggests may have been the
>winning one.
>
>The following position arose after Toga's 36th move:
>
>[D]8/1r3q2/2p1p1k1/p1PpBppp/P1nP4/2P2PP1/4R1KP/4Q3 w - - 0 37
>
>Here Rybka played 37.h4! gxh4 (37...g4 will need to be better investigated)
>38.Kh3!! hxg3 39.Qxg3+ Kh7 40.Bf4 Qf6 (I couldn't find any real improvement over
>this BTW) 41.Qh4 Qxh4+ 42.Kxh4 Re7
What about 38...Rb2?
If 39.Rxb2 Nxb2 40.gxh4 f4! Draw
If 39.Rxb2 Nxb2 40.Kxh4 Nxa4 41.Qa1 Qb7! Draw {42.Qxa4?? Qb1 Black wins}
If 39.gxh4 Rxe2 40.Qxe2 Qg8 Draw {41.Qh2 Qf7 etc. -- this line may need more
analysis}
If 39.Kxh4?? Nxe5 40.dxe5 Rxe2 41.Qxe2 Qe7+ Black wins
jm
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.