Author: Rick Hagen
Date: 19:25:16 01/18/06
After the moves:
[Event "10"/1"]
[Site "Netherlands"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "New game"]
[Black ""]
[Result "*"]
[PlyCount "35"]
{512MB, Power2004.ctg, P4 3Ghz XP-Home GUI9} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4.
Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8. Na3 b5 9. Bxf6 gxf6 10. Nd5 f5 11.
exf5 Bxf5 12. Qf3 Nd4 13. Nc7+ Qxc7 14. Qxa8+ Ke7 15. c3 b4 16. cxb4 Qb6 17.
Bxa6 Qxb4+ 18. Kf1 *
We reach the following position:
[D]Q4b1r/4kp1p/B2p4/4pb2/1q1n4/N7/PP3PPP/R4K1R b - - 0 18
I found 23 games in my DB.
The following moves were played:
18...Qd2 18x
18...Qxb2 4x
18...Kf6 1x
Black scored pretty well with Qd2: 12/18
Qxb2 scored 50%
The idea of Qd2 instead of Qxb2 seems to be to prevent white exchanging queens..
However, after letting Fritz 9 ponder over this position in multi-PV mode, it
came up with 18...Bh6!!
Analysis by Fritz 9: (Depth 16, after 10 min.)
P4@3Ghz
Hash 512MB
1. -+ (-1.52): 18...Bh6 19.Qxh8 Qxb2 20.Re1 Qxa3 21.Rxe5+ dxe5 22.Qxe5+ Ne6
23.Qe2 Kf8 24.Kg1 Nf4 25.Qc4 Be6
2. µ (-0.73): 18...Qxb2 19.Qb7+ Qxb7 20.Bxb7 d5 21.Rd1 Kd6 22.Ba6 Kc6 23.Nb1
Bc2 24.Re1 Rg8 25.a4
3. ³ (-0.30): 18...Qd2 19.h3 Bd3+ 20.Bxd3 Qxd3+ 21.Kg1 Bh6 22.Qb7+ Kf6 23.g3
Rg8 24.h4 d5 25.Qb6+ Kg7 26.h5 Qf3 27.Rh3
(Hagen, Netherlands 19.01.2006)
So, what do other engines think about 18..Bh6 ?
Regards,
RH
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