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Subject: Re: Whereabouts of Mike Valvo match

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 13:51:52 08/12/99

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On August 12, 1999 at 16:29:47, Abhishek Roy wrote:

>I am trying to find Mike Valvo's match aginst Deep Thought played by
>correspondence, which of course resulted in a spectacular victory by Valvo.
>I believe he wrote detailed notes to the games himself, but none of the popular
>cc pages seem to have them.
>
>PS: I believe Deep Thought once took 3 days to go down to 35 plies and still
>could not refute one of Valvo's ideas which allowed his Queen and knight to be
>forked. A great feat indeed!

	I have one game of the match. I am not sure if they played more games. And yes,
that match is hard to find in Web pages.

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1988.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Deep Thought"]
[Black "Valvo"]
[Result "0-1"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 d5 3. exd5 c6 4. Nc3 exf4 5. Nf3 Bd6 6. d4 Ne7 7. dxc6 Nbxc6
8. d5 Nb4 9. Bc4 O-O 10. a3 b5 11. Bb3 Na6 12. Nxb5 Qa5+ 13. Nc3 Nc5 14.
Ba2 Ba6 15. b4 Qc7 16. bxc5 Rfe8 17. Ne2 Qxc5 18. c4 Nxd5 19. Qd4 Qxd4 20.
Nxd4 Bc5 21. Kd2 Ne3 22. Kc3 Rac8 23. Bb2 Nxg2 24. Raf1 Rcd8 25. Rhg1 Re3+
26. Kd2 f3 27. Rxf3 Rxf3 28. Rxg2 Rh3 29. Kc1 g6 30. a4 Bb7 31. Rf2 Ba8 32.
Bb1 Rb8 33. Ba2 Rd3 34. Rf4 Rd2 35. Kxd2 Rxb2+ 36. Nc2 Rxa2 37. Nc3 Rb2 38.
Rf6 Kg7 39. Rf1 f5 40. Nd5 Bxd5 41. cxd5 Rb3 42. h4 Kf6 43. Re1 Rh3 44.
Re6+ Kf7 45. a5 Rxh4 46. Rc6 Bb4+ 47. Nxb4 Rxb4 48. Rc7+ Kf6 0-1




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