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We have 32 guests online| Yury Markushin vs. Machine |
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| Written by Yury Markushin |
| Saturday, 14 November 2009 21:32 |
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Here is one of my games I played on FICS against relatively high rated opponent. Take a look, it was a good fight! Read the comments below as you scroll through the moves. I was playing this game against an expert strength program on FICS as white. 14…e6 - black looks for a counter play in the center. Let's analyze this position. White has serious positional advantage. All 3 heavy pieces lined up on b-file, but they can also be easily transferred on open e-file. Black got a pair of bad knights on f6 and g6, which have pretty much nowhere to go. It is very hard to make them good knights by putting them, say, on d4 because of my strong pawn formation. At the same time white has protected passed pawn on d5. White bishop is somewhat passive but it can be easily moved to h3 and become a dangerous weapon. 33. Nb5+ Ka6 34. Re2 - now the queen side is locked, it makes sense to take over e-file. If we look at this current position we see that white's king is completely cut off in the corner of a board. c7 and d6 controlled by the white knight, dc and d8 - by the bishop and c6 by the d-pawn. 45.Bf5 (preparing h2-h4) Ng8 46.h4 Nf8 (freeing black pawns) 47.Bh3 Nh6 (the Chessmaster10 classifies it as a bad move, 47…h5 would have been better. ) 52.Bg2 - Not the best move here, a lot (!) better is 52.Na7!! if 52…Ka8 after 53.Nc6 - forced mate in 3. If black plays 52…g3 53.Nc6 Kc8 52… Ng8 53. Rc7 Rc8? (The Chessmaster10 says that blacks moves into forced mate in 8: 54.Ra7 Rc7 55.Rxc7 Nf6 56.d6 Ng6 57.Ra7 Kc8 58.Bc6 Nd7 59.Ra8+ Nb8 60.Na7+ Kd8 61.Rxb8#) Tricky! I did not see that during the game. 54. Ra7 Re8 55.Bf3 (should have played 55.d6! mate in 5) Nf6 56.d6 Ne4+ 57. Kg2 f5 - knight has to block long diagonal. It was a good game and a good fight. I hope you enjoyed the game and I hope even more that you have learned something from my analysis. Here we go; it's another small victory in the war: humans against the machines… |
| Last Updated on Saturday, 14 November 2009 22:03 |















