Keith Ruxton just pointed out this game to me.
Said it reminded him of me. (flattered...because this is brilliant).
I shoot for these everytime I'm playing blitz. Once out of every 20 I get one.
(but none as hot as this. Mine are cheapo's.)
This was done under tournament conditions.
It's already being lorded as the game of the year.
Move 16 is just WoW!! and there are more wows to follow.
Enjoy.
Zhao Jun (2580) - Xiu Deshun (2508) Chinese Championship 2011
For notes and and a good stab at explanations see:
http://www.chessbase.com/news/2011/misc/games/chinch02.htm
Incredible game GP, thanks, well recommended.
I just quickly threw the game into fritz, to see what he thinks of it.
Usually when I check games with fritz (my own OTB games) there isn't much going on. I just simply miss easily or sometimes a bit less easily winning moves.
You wouldn't believe the incredible mess fritz makes of this game.
No as far as I let it analyse the position before Bxe6 (a little over 12 minutes), it prefers e5 as just a little better for white.
Now I will let it analyse the continuation it thinks best afterwards but it gets very very messy in all the sidelines that it fails to correctly assess in the short time I let it look at it before.
Will post the undoubtedly stunning results later... 😉
Since I don't have oceans of time, I haven't had it look at positions longer than say 10 or 20 minutes for the more complex ones.
What is interesting is that this seems to be a game and especially from move 16 onwards that demonstrates the horizon effect of the engine, which is by the way Rybka 3, only I run it with the Fritz program, I think (never know quite how that works).
Of course 16. Bxd6 is a stunning move. The moves that follow this move are pretty much in the top choices by the box, although it evaluates the position still as equal.
In the following position
attention was given on chessbase to the move Bxc4, instead of Kg7 which was played ingame, pointing out that it is no good either.
The engine initially disagrees, of course, but after playing out some of the variations it prefers, it changes its opinion drastically regarding the evaluation.
Two interesting lines:
Stupid engine.
Beautiful game. Worth analyzing.
Edits: pgn things...
