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Subject: Re: Hiarcs - Ferret; good game, bad result.

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 19:28:57 06/15/99

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On June 15, 1999 at 22:01:34, Albert Silver wrote:

>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.
>

I will have to take a closer look at it later (after I get some work done! :)

>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

Yeah, that was disgusting.  Cilkchess basically handed Junior the game on a
silver platter with that one move... probably its first move out of book.
Second, tops.

(Hope I am not ranting too much on that theme! :-)

Dave



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