Author: Chessfun
Date: 20:56:59 12/21/99
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On December 21, 1999 at 23:46:53, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>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.
I understand you wishing to to preserve the GM's identity (handle) I am not sure
why Roman would keep it secret when he uses the name roman at chess.net?.
Still NP.
Thanks for posting the game !!
Thanks.
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