Author: Francis Monkman
Date: 11:42:16 05/24/99
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On May 23, 1999 at 18:19:56, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote: > >Dear Francis, > >I am somewhat bewildered by your "oops." The apparent question is what is the >correct move? Bxb2+ does win a pawn, but, and this is a BIG but, going after the >rook at a1 is foolish when it's the rook at g1 which poses a threat and needs to >be eliminatd for black to focus on a plan of attacking the white King. After >Bxg1 I believe a6! should be played to get rid of that pesky Knight so black can >proceed with a strategical plan of attacking the white King. > >Phil Dixon has informed me that Fritz played Bh2+. Have you tried this position >on Fritz? Also worth repeating here is that REBEL 10 played Bxb2+ while HIARCS 7 >played Bh2+. By the way, if important, white did have Queenside castling rights. > >Mel Hi Mel It was just that I referred to Phil as 'Chris' (sorry Phil), hence the 'blunder mark'! I agree entirely that Black needs to play ...a6, it's (like so many moves) just a question of "when"! Did you see the analysis posted by Hans (topic above this), suggesting it's much harder for Black to win after Kd2 and Qxg1? I found that to be the case, although I found an improvement to his (Mac Chess) line that seems to allow Black to keep the pressure up, otherwise it looks like a draw. My impression is that Fritz 5.32 doesn't choose ...Bh2+ in a *reasonable* time, I'll run it a bit longer. All best Francis
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