Author: Albert Silver
Date: 19:01:34 06/15/99
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On June 15, 1999 at 16:43:57, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On June 15, 1999 at 16:21:31, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>On June 15, 1999 at 16:10:47, James Robertson wrote:
>>
>>>A very exciting game well played by Hiarcs. Ferret had a chronic dark square
>>>weakness that Hiarcs exploited very well. I was surprised Ferret didn't place a
>>>knight on d3 early in the game.... maybe there was a tactical thing I am
>>>missing?
Yes, after Ng3 something would go down. White threatens Bxf6, Nxe4, and the
knight on d3 is hanging. I haven't double-checked this but that's what I
remember seeing.
>>>
>>>James
>>>
>>>[Event "1999 WCCC"]
>>>[Site "Paderborn"]
>>>[Date "1999.06.15"]
>>>[Round "3"]
>>>[White "COMPHiarcs"]
>>>[Black "COMPFerret"]
>>>[Result "1-0"]
>>>[WhiteElo "0"]
>>>[BlackElo "0"]
>>>
>>>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 d5 5. cxd5 Qxd5 6. Nf3 c5 7. Bd2 Bxc3
>>>8. Bxc3 cxd4 9. Nxd4 e5 10. Nf3 Nc6 11. Rd1 Qc5 12. e3 Bg4 13. Be2 O-O 14.
>>>O-O Rfe8 15. Qb3 Qe7 16. h3 Bh5 17. Qc4 e4 18. Nd4 Ne5 19. Qb3 Bxe2 20.
>>>Nxe2 b6 21. Ng3 g6 22. Rd4 Ned7 23. Rfd1 Nc5 24. Qc4 Qe6 25. b4 Nb7 26. Ba1
>>>Rac8 27. Qe2 Kf8 28. Qb2 Qe5 29. Qa3 Qe6 30. R4d2 Ng8 31. Qxa7 Re7 32. Ne2
>>>g5 33. b5 Nc5 34. Rd8+ Re8 35. R8d6 Qc4 36. Ng3 Qxb5 37. Nf5 Ne6 38. R6d5
>>>Qb4 39. Be5 Ne7 40. Bd6
>>>1-0
>>
>>My amateur eye doesn't really like 21...g6. It is difficult to defend the dark
>>squares around the king without a black bishop to put on g7.
>>
>>Dave
>
>
>I agree.. I didn't like 21... g6, but also 17... e4 gave white a handy target,
>and it ended up costing black the a pawn to avoid losing this pawn.
21...g6 was anti-positional and that's really all there is to it, but 17...e4 is
more complicated. As far as I could see after trying hard to understand the
purpose of Qc4, I realized that it was threatening Qh4. I never saw this type of
position handled that way and thought it was a very interesting manoeuvre.
Cilkchess's rook on h6 had to be the most ridiculous thing I ever saw from a top
program. Today that is. It goes without saying that not many eyebrows would have
been raised had this been 10 years ago.
Albert Silver
> When
>watching the game, I decided that maybe black was concerned with the white
>knight plonking down on f5, maybe... And g6 prevented that, but opened another
>can of worms...
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