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Subject: Re: Kaspy's Brilliancy vs Topalov and Chess programs

Author: James Robertson

Date: 19:49:58 08/06/99

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On August 06, 1999 at 18:26:37, odell hall wrote:

>Hi CCC
>
> A while back this game was discussed here, unfortunately I cannot recall the
>date or the analyzes.  I remember very few if any programs found the key move
>24. Rxd4 in kaspy's brilliancy and I believe it was on very fast machines.
>
>
>[Black "Topalov, V"]
>[Round "04"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[WhiteElo "2812"]
>[BlackElo "2700"]
>[ECO "B07"]
>
>1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Be3 Bg7 5. Qd2
>c6 6. f3 b5 7. Nge2 Nbd7 8. Bh6 Bxh6 9. Qxh6
>Bb7 10. a3 e5 11. O-O-O Qe7 12. Kb1 a6 13. Nc1
>O-O-O 14. Nb3 exd4 15. Rxd4 c5 16. Rd1 Nb6 17. g3
>Kb8 18. Na5 Ba8 19. Bh3 d5 20. Qf4+ Ka7 21. Rhe1
>d4 22. Nd5 Nbxd5 23. exd5 Qd6 24. Rxd4 cxd4 25. Re7+
>Kb6 26. Qxd4+ Kxa5 27. b4+ Ka4 28. Qc3 Qxd5 29. Ra7
>Bb7 30. Rxb7 Qc4 31. Qxf6 Kxa3 32. Qxa6+ Kxb4 33. c3+
>Kxc3 34. Qa1+ Kd2 35. Qb2+ Kd1 36. Bf1 Rd2 37. Rd7
>Rxd7 38. Bxc4 bxc4 39. Qxh8 Rd3 40. Qa8 c3 41. Qa4+
>Ke1 42. f4 f5 43. Kc1 Rd2 44. Qa7 1-0

If I recall, Fritz found both rook sacs, and also the improvement Kb6 that saves
black's game.

James



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