Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:46:53 12/21/99
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On December 21, 1999 at 23:07:22, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On December 21, 1999 at 18:01:29, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>On December 21, 1999 at 17:46:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>><lots snipped>
>>
>>>Not for me. And not even for a GM. I watched Roman play crafty last night in
>>>an opposite colored bishop ending. He tried plan A. Crafty defended. He
>>>retreated and tried plan B, again no success. He backed up again and tried
>>>plan C and won. And by "backed up" I don't mean "took back moves" I mean he
>>>consciously moved the king back to the starting position (or close enough) and
>>>then tried another way of winning.
>>>
>>>I have seen Crafty do the same. I consider the game a draw after it can't win
>>>for 50 moves... which fits perfectly with the rules of chess of course..
>>
>>Dr. Hyatt could you please post this game.....you made it sound so good !!.
>>Thanks.
>
>
>I don't save them when I see them, but if you search (Hmm... I am not sure
>that the handle he used is known to be a Roman handle, so let me see if I can
>find the game myself)...
>
>Roman is _very_ creative against computers, and is one hell of an endgame
>player, make no bones about it...
I couldn't find the game I wanted, as it was out of crafty's history and would
be hard to find. But here is another similar game vs Roman on ICC. Near the
end, he first tries king to the queenside, that fails, so he then goes round to
the kingside and finally wins. This shows the idea of trying one way, then
trying another...
[Event "ICC 5 3"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "1999.xx.xx"]
[Round "-"]
[White "*"]
[Black "crafty"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ICCResult "Black resigns"]
[WhiteElo "2927"]
[BlackElo "3044"]
[Opening "Sicilian: Najdorf, Adams attack"]
[ECO "B90"]
[NIC "SI.14"]
[Time "*"]
[TimeControl "300+3"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. h3 e5 7. Nde2 Be7 8.
g4 O-O 9. Bg2 Nc6 10. Be3 b5 11. Ng3 Na5 12. b3 Qc7 13. Qd2 b4 14. Nd5 Nxd5
15. exd5 Nb7 16. O-O a5 17. Rac1 Nc5 18. c3 Ba6 19. c4 Rfc8 20. f4 exf4 21.
Bxf4 Re8 22. Nf5 Bf8 23. Rf2 Bc8 24. Nd4 Bd7 25. Rcf1 Ne4 26. Bxe4 Rxe4 27.
Re1 Rae8 28. Rxe4 Rxe4 29. Re2 Rxe2 30. Qxe2 Qc5 31. Qe3 h5 32. Nf5 Qxe3+
33. Nxe3 hxg4 34. hxg4 f6 35. Nf5 g6 36. Nxd6 g5 37. Bg3 Bxg4 38. Kf2 Bd1
39. c5 f5 40. Be5 Bxd6 41. Bxd6 Bc2 42. c6 f4 43. Bc5 Be4 44. c7 Bf5 45. Bb6
Kf8 46. Bxa5 Ke7 47. Bxb4+ Kd7 48. d6 Bb1 49. a4 Bc2 50. a5 Bxb3 51. a6 Bg8
52. a7 Bd5 53. Bd2 Ba8 54. Bc1 Kc8 55. Ke1 Kd7 56. Bd2 Bb7 57. Ke2 Kc8 58.
Kd3 Kd7 59. Kd4 Bc6 60. Ke5 Bg2 61. Kf6 Bc6 62. Kxg5 f3 63. Be3 Ba8 64. Bf2
Be4 65. Kf6 Bc6 66. Ke5 Ba8 67. Kd4 Bc6 68. Kc5 Ba8 69. Kd4 Bc6 70. Ke5 Ba8
71. Kf6 Bc6 72. Kf7 Bd5+ 73. Kf8 Bc6 74. Be3 {Black resigns}
I tried to * the information that could be used to figure out who this player
was. I only suggest that no one try to look deep enough to find the real
handle. I don't want to expose a GM that is very helpful to me, but I thought
the game was interesting enough at the end (Crafty didn't understand the ending,
as I had taught it that connected passers are not so strong once they are
blockaded... and with opposite bishops they are even worse. But in this case
the GM knew what Crafty knew, and he knew it 'knew' the wrong things. As I
said, please don't try to uncover this GM's ICC handle, as I would probably
choose to not post any more games to be sure to protect anonymous handles...
This game is old enough that it should be hard to figure out, but maybe not.
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