This was the position we discussed at Boomie's:

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39. c4 (your improvement!) ...Qxh4
40. Qg1 Bc2(!) now we're off, I'll explain the motifs behind this idea tomorrow...

41. Qc1 Be4
42. c4-c5 Be4-c6 - the pointe - a better point of control for the LSB, looking in both directions (well more than 2) of the important long diagonal

43. Qc1-g1 Qh4-d4
44. Qg1-c1 Qd4-e5
45. Qc1-c4 Qe5xg5
46. Qc4-c1 Qg5-e5
47. Ka1-b1 Qe5-e4+
48. Kb1-a2 g6-g5
49. b2-b4 a4xb3+
50. Ka2xb3 g5-g4 - now this is just accurate technique 51. Be2xg4 Bc6-d5+
52. Kb3-b2 Qe4xg4
53. Qc1xe3 Qg4-g2+
54. Kb2-c3 Qg2-f3
55. Qe3xf3 Bd5xf3 -- and BINGO...

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It's middle of the night here, so I'll put analysis with it, later, and repost, coz I totally got this down, within 30 minutes or so, as this geometrical dance started to come alive...

Hi, kid. It's on page 21. The top line reads:

<achieve: <Jess> I PLAYED AN AMAZING GAME!!>

This is Game Three from today, I am <White> and on <move 22> I establish my <h-pawn> as a <FAWN PAWN> on the <h-6> square.

I've just moved

<22.h6> here-

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Ok according to my <Shredder> Black is better. I don't dispute the evaluation-- Black better by around a third of a pawn-- as his stinking <Knight> is giving me a hissy fit.

However, I've been <brainwashed> by <Kingscrusher> to go for that <FAWN PAWN> whenever it seems like I might get away with it.

OK now

<22...Bf8 (forced)
23.g5>

Giving me this position:

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Ok fine and <Shredder> still likes Black better by about a third of a pawn, and why not? The stinking Black Knight is still rampant and now I've got a backward pawn on <f4> that Black can target at his leisure.

HOWEVER-- and this is the point I want to show-- As <Kingscrusher> is so fond of pointing out, the power of the <FAWN PAWN> is <latent>... it may not be seen till the very end of the game, and there's certainly no guarantee that it will become powerful...

BUT IT MIGHT... heh.. That's the instructive point I want to show here.

In this One Particular Game, it was my <FAWN PAWN> on the <h6> square that was the game-winning positional factor.

OK now he miscalculated tactics in the center and dropped his <d-pawn>, giving me this position.

I've just moved <35.Re1-Rd1> and it's Black's move now...

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And, to use one of <Kingscrusher's> favorite expressions,

WHAT IS BLACK DOING HERE? (He means what plan can Black make?)

Heh-- The vicious pin on his Knight must be solved by something extraordinarily ugly like <35...Rhf1> or something...

But the point I want to make is that look how in this position, showing the transition from late Middle Game to End game, that my <FAWN PAWN> on the <h6> square is becoming more and more of a positional trump for White. My backward pawn on the <f4> square is no longer a weakness either.

Now, the finish--

From the last FEN--

<35...Rhe8
36.Bxd4 Rxd4
37.Rxd4 cxd4
38.Rxd4>

Giving me this--

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Ok now Black should now properly play <38...Re1+>, which is still winning for White with precise play-- I had calculated him playing this move from my deliberations at the point of the last FEN...

And one of the main reasons that the position is winning for White is that due to my <FAWN PAWN>, Black has to be on constant lookout for <g6!> and me making a Queen two moves later.

This tactic is permanently in the air in this positon-- a <THORN IN BLACK'S SIDE>, as <Kingscrusher> so often describes the <FAWN PAWN> when it starts to exert its <latent power>.

Anyways, he made it easy from here by blundering with

<38...Re4?
39.Rxe4 fxe4>

(He was desperately tring to give himself a passed pawn, but now he cannot stop either my <g or h- pawn> from Queening. My King can restrain his passer....)

Final position:

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There is absolutely no defence now to <40.g5>...

My <FAWN PAWN>, sitting on the <h-6> square like a dead vole for 20 moves, is now as <STRONG AS A QUEEN>.

Heh- Hi <Helpful Elephant>...

I was just thinking about you. On my evening walk, I was marveling at how I managed not to lose the first game I played today.

White (me) was lost from move 8 to the last move.

But you know, you said <play on as tough as you can- people hate that>.

Turns out he DID seem to hate it...

Since, in the final position, Rooks and pawns, he had a totally winning continuation I"m sure he could have solved in 1 second if it were a "chess puzzle."

I was in fact in <zugzwang> (not virtually- actually-) when he offered me a 3-fold repetition.

Simply, he failed accurately to judge what <de Groot> calls the <static evaluation of the position>.

A miracle-- they don't happen every time you open atrociously and hang on for 50 moves...

It did this time though.

heh...

The <deGroot> quote is courtesy of <KlangenFarben> (see his post above).

Kudos to <klangenfarben>, indeed.

Your opponent must have felt tired, with you putting up such a dogged resilient fight, and that's the advantage of going in well rested and reasonably fresh... In the game as played in Boomie's forum, I tired considerably towards the end, and I think my conversion of the advantage wasn't optimal, but I hung on for a simplification that just turned out right, hinging on one tempo.

People attacking a Chess Puzzle are always fresh: "Let's do a Puzzle now!" - while following a gruelling struggle, it can easily happen that you forget your queen was en prise, and just a blind spot ruins the whole thing.

Chess is for artsy competitors, and for dogged competitors, but competitors they remain, if not they lose.

<Combattants.>

But you will have your ups and downs... The trick is, how well do you function and conduct (really like a "conductor") yourself, under less optimal circumstances, and take it from there. That's why it is so important to understand the psychology, and <physiological effects>, of competitive sport.

Morozevich vs Svidler, 2008

Thanks for the interesting information...

Does this mean you are cheering for the <Hirarcs> computer?

<Rybka> is winning so far. I played through several of the games at the <official site> which I got from <chessbase>.

Aren't you afraid of people turning into <cyborgs>?

I use my Engine all the time... but I worry about it also.

I'm always thinking-- "how can the Engine help me learn to beat a human in my games?"

I'm just afraid that one day we will have chess engine chips in our heads, not just sewn into our hats.

There's already a <dance club> in Amsterdam where the "schtick" is that you can buy a membership-- you get a computer chip implanted in your hand and you don't have to pay a cover charge.

They "scan" your hand when you come in the door.

I saw it on a BBC documentary on <nanochips> and how they are not as innocent as potato chips.

Actually it was a pretty serious documentary. Scary too.

I'd just like to know that there are still "dividing lines" where one thing starts and another stops.

That is-- recently-- <Niels> is separate.. I am separate... the Engines <Niels> is using are in turn separate... my two Engines are separate....

And in this case me and <Niels> choose to bring them all to bear together in order to do our analysis together. That's one of the main reason why I specifically mention in my posts when I am analyzing WITHOUT using an Engine...

Interesting eh? One can safely assume that I'm analyzing WITH an Engine if I don't mention anything about it...

But for me to make it clear when I'm NOT using my Engine I have to mention it.

I just hope we humans are still in the captain's chair. I know that humans build and program the Engines-- and that's why you say they are separate areas-- (more to do with chess analysis than chess playing)--

But what about when Computers can build computers and then kill us all like in <Terminator> and <Matrix>?

What about when we can't tell if our friend is a human or a cyborg, like in <Blade Runner>?

A nano chip in the brain is going to happen very very soon.

Aren't you worried at all about machines taking over world government?

I can't decide if I'm voicing a serious fear or just watched too many science fiction horror movies.

http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp...

Here is the link where you can link to the <official home page> of the current COMPUTER WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP and also download all the games in <PIG> format.

Which is what I did.

Pretty snazzy-- when I did it, they all automatically open in my <Shredder>, which is the interface I used to play through them.

I guess this means the <Shredder> is the default <PIG> viewer on my PC, even though I also have <Fritz 10> installed?

Mrs. Computer illiterate... and yet I"m typing on one at this very moment...

well about humans vs engines well when a skilled human player uses an engine in an Advanced Chess game the result is a combination of chess analytical skill and the engine+hardware

note I feel this kind of chess is more towards chess analysis rather than chess competition, like a lab scientist with his sensory equipment

I have seen Rybka overlook some moves that other engines find, simmilarly Rybka finds moves that others overlook, sometimes a strong human player can find a combination that an engine simply does not get

(there are various engine busting positions from Petrosyan and Fischer's games)

Isn't <Ryka> a Finnish Forumla One race car driver?

HE SURE GETS AROUND!!!

Remind me not to challenge you to a game of correspondence <Advanced Chess>...

I prefer my Shredder to my Fritz cuz the Shredder doesn't "talk out loud."

A Petrosian move can bust a computer line-- but remember the famous game where Petrosian hung his queen?

That will never happen with a computer...

Krogius: Psychology in Chess is the primer.

Kotov: Think Like A Grandmaster, Chapter 1 - Analysis of Variations is a pre-requisite.

I come from the Fischer "willful" school of thought, which presses on in dead-drawn positions. I cite Damjanovic-Fischer and Szabo-Fischer, both from the Second IZ in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1970, as stellar examples of this mindset.

M Damjanovic vs Fischer, 1970 after 37. .. ♘xd7

its true, my cat already has one in her neck! I don't know if it helps with chess, but it will help her find the way home in an emergency!

And when I woke up this mornin'
There were a lotta bills to pay
The stock market was in the red,
there were people runnin' everywhere
Tryin' to run from the destruction,
U know the Brothers didn't have a prayer

The more I hear about your cat, the more I like him.

What, you think they could do a worse job than their carbonated counterparts have?

What's his name?>

Strangely her name is 'Mr Picklestein' but once you have made friends she lets you call her 'Mr Pickles'.