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Subject: Re: Did Rebel Escape a Loss here?

Author: odell hall

Date: 21:00:02 08/28/99

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On August 28, 1999 at 16:23:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 28, 1999 at 08:03:19, odell hall wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>> This game was played at Santa Domingo last year, Time control was 40/2.
>>At move 36. Rebel played Bxe4? Accordinging to all my programs this move should
>>lose. Not being real great at endgames I cannot be so sure. Maybe someone with
>>the crafty endgame tablebases can say for sure. Did the fide Master go astray or
>>did Rebel simply produce an endgame brilliancy? Here is the epd for the Crucial
>>position, as well as the complete game.`
>>
>>8/K5pp/8/2pk4/4p3/2P4n/PPB2P2/8 w - - id REBEL 10 400MHZ 128 - NM JUAN ML.
>>JAQUEZ; bm c2e4;
>>













>>
>>
>>[Event "4ta. COPA SAMANEL"]
>>[Site "?"]
>>[Date "1998.12.20"]
>>[Round "?"]
>>[White "REBEL 10 400MHZ 128"]
>>[Black "NM JUAN ML. JAQUEZ"]
>>[Result "1-0"]
>>[WhiteElo "2555"]
>>[BlackElo "2205"]
>>[ECO "B01"]
>>
>>1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 c6 5. Bc4 Bf5 6. Nf3 Nf6 7. O-O
>>e6 8. Bf4 Nbd7 9. Qe2 Bg4 10. h3 Bxf3 11. Qxf3 Rd8 12. Rad1 Bb4 13. Ne4
>>Nxe4 14. Qxe4 O-O 15. Bb3 Nf6 16. Qe2 Bd6 17. Bxd6 Rxd6 18. c3 Rfd8 19.
>>Rfe1 b6 20. Qe5 c5 21. dxc5 Qxc5 22. Qxc5 bxc5 23. Rxd6 Rxd6 24. Rd1 Rxd1+
>>25. Bxd1 Kf8 26. Kf1 Ke7 27. Ke2 e5 28. Kd3 Nd5 29. g3 f5 30. Kc4 Kd6 31.
>>Kb5 e4 32. Ka6 f4 33. gxf4 Nxf4 34. Bc2 Kd5 35. Kxa7 Nxh3 36. Bxe4+ Kxe4
>>37. b4 cxb4 38. cxb4 Nxf2 39. b5 Kd5 40. b6 Nd3 41. b7 Ne5 42. Kb6 Nd7+
>>43. Kc7 Nc5 44. b8=N h5 45. Nc6 h4 46. Ne7+ Ke4 47. Kc6 Nd3 1-0
>
>
>Looks very dangerous for white, to me.  Black's king is centralized, black's
>knight will get over to the queenside, and I don't see how two passed pawns are
>going to get past the knight and king.  And then white has the minor problem of
>not being able to stop black's h pawn...
>
>I let crafty run thru depth 18 here, and it thinks black is winning easily and
>would play Kxe4 without thinking, eval after 18 plies +5.6
>
>Are you sure that isn't a typo?  Although it might just be desparation as white
>is losing anyway...


Yes, Howard has demonstrated that the Pgn file was faulty, and apparantly it was
correctly shortly after the event, Rebel was actually black, Bxe4? was obviously
a desparation attempt by a human in time pressure.



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