Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 23:11:36 06/18/99
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On June 19, 1999 at 00:23:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 18, 1999 at 22:01:26, James Robertson wrote: > >>On June 18, 1999 at 17:43:13, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On June 18, 1999 at 10:13:05, Robert Ericsson wrote: >>> >>>>On June 18, 1999 at 10:02:27, James Robertson wrote: >>>> >>>>>Very exciting game. As far as I know, the first totally successful sacrificial >>>>>kingside attack in this tournament. >>>>> >>>>>James >>>> >>>>Yeah, great game indeed :-) >>>> >>>>[Event "WCCC99"] >>>>[Site "Paderborn"] >>>>[Date "1999.06.18"] >>>>[Round "6"] >>>>[White "Junior"] >>>>[Black "Nimzo"] >>>>[Result "1-0"] >>>> >>>>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. a3 Bb7 5. Nc3 d5 6. Bg5 >>>>dxc4 7. e4 Be7 8. Bxf6 Bxf6 9. Bxc4 O-O 10. e5 Be7 11. O-O >>>>c5 12. d5 exd5 13. Nxd5 Nc6 14. Qd3 b5 15. Ba2 c4 16. Qe4 >>>>Bc5 17. Nf6+ gxf6 18. Bb1 Re8 19. Qxh7+ Kf8 20. Qh6+ Ke7 >>>>21. Qxf6+ Kf8 22. Qh6+ Ke7 23. Be4 Qb6 24. e6 Rad8 25. exf7 >>>>Rh8 26. Qg7 Rhf8 27. Bf5 Rxf7 28. Rfe1+ 1-0 >>>> >>>>Robert >>> >>> >>>Nf6 isn't a sac. all the programs observing the game found that move. Crafty >>>saw it in 10 seconds on my PII/300 notebook... the score was +.7 for the >>>move... >> >>Apparently Nimzo did not see it.... >> >>James > > >More likely it just did a poor job of evaluating the resulting position. >Getting the 3 pawns back doesn't take much of a search. Deciding whether you >like having a piece for 3 pawns is harder. And then factoring in king safety >tends to cause problems for programs that try to be unbearably fast... Considering that Junior was out of book at move 8 or so, and they improved on existing opening theory with 13. Nxd5, I say hats off to them. Dave
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