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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