Author: ludicrous
Date: 04:45:32 01/19/06
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It is exactly theoretical finds like this that people like Kasparov pay a good
dael of money to seconds!
On January 18, 2006 at 22:25:16, Rick Hagen wrote:
>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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