Author: Eduard Nemeth
Date: 06:47:28 12/16/05
Arno Nickel is corr. chess Grandmaster!
His game I founds at time on playchess:
[Event "1st. Corr. Match 2004/5"]
[Site "Abu Dhabi / Berlin"]
[Date "2005.07.11"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Hydra, Scylla"]
[Black "Nickel, Arno"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C42"]
[WhiteElo "2500"]
[BlackElo "2496"]
[Annotator "ICCF GM Nickel, Arno"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2003.07.23"]
[EventType "match (corr)"]
[EventRounds "4"]
{Introduction to GAME 3, written on Hydrachess.com: Game 3 has been started
between the correspondence chess GM Arno Nickel and Hydra. This is the 3rd
game of the series of 4 games agreed between the 2 opponents, last 2 games has
been won by the GM Arno Nickel and this time the Hydra team is more
enthusiastic about the game and hoping to make a win, Hydra project manager
Muhammad Nasir Ali commented on the match, "Correspondence chess is certainly
different from the classical chess and we found it very good to play against a
GM, the last 2 games helped us a lot to learn about the correspondence chess
and with this we are ready to play the next two games and we hope we will
perform better. Though we did much more better then the Arno's predictions
about the Michael Adam's match and we hope Hydra will do its best against him
as well in the coming games."} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4
d5 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. O-O Be7 8. c4 (8. Re1 Bg4 9. c3 f5 10. Qb3 O-O 11. Nbd2 Na5
12. Qc2 Nc6 13. b4 a6 14. Rb1 $146 {
see:;Hydra-Michael Adams/Man Vs Machine 2005/1-0}) 8... Nb4 9. Be2 O-O 10. Nc3
Be6 11. Ne5 f6 12. Nf3 Kh8 13. Re1 f5 14. a3 Nc6 15. cxd5 Bxd5 16. Bf4 Bf6 17.
Bb5 Nxc3 (17... Ne7 $5 18. Nxd5 Nxd5 (18... Qxd5 19. Qe2 c6) 19. Be5 c6) 18.
bxc3 Ne7 19. Ne5 Bxe5 20. Bxe5 Ng6 21. Bd3 (21. Bf1 $5 {
with the idea to prepare c3-c4.}) 21... Qg5 (21... Qd7 $5 22. f4 (22. Rb1)) 22.
g3 {How does Hydra evaluate this position? "Hydra thinks that the bishop is
strong at the moment and the evaluation is +0.48."} (22. f3 $5 Rae8 23. Qc1)
22... Rae8 23. f4 Qd8 24. Qa4 a6 25. Re3 Nxe5 26. dxe5 (26. fxe5 $2 f4 $40) (
26. Rxe5 Rxe5 27. dxe5) 26... Qe7 (26... Qa8 $5 $13 27. Rd1 $140 Qa7 (27... b5)
) 27. Qb4 c5 $132 (27... Qe6 28. Rd1 $14) 28. Qb6 Rd8 29. a4 {
Hydra's score is 0.24 - quite realistic in my opinion.} Bc6 $11 {Sacrifies the
a-pawn for strong counterplay in the centre and on the king-side. White loses
a tempo by 30.Bxa6 (g5!), but what else should he play? (26.10.2005)} (29... g5
$5 30. Qh6 (30. Rf1 Bc6) 30... c4 31. Bc2 (31. Be2 gxf4 32. Qxf4 Qe6 $11) 31...
Bc6 32. Rd1 gxf4 33. Qxf4 Qe6 $11) (29... Rf6 30. Qb2 Rff8) 30. a5 g5 31. Rf1
Rd5 {(30.10.2005 - Urlaub Hydra bis 12.11.2005)} 32. Qb2 c4 (32... Rfd8 33. Be2
Rd2 34. Qb1 Be4 35. Rxe4 fxe4 36. Qxe4 gxf4 37. Rxf4 $11 {Xmas}) 33. Bxc4 Qc5
34. Qe2 gxf4 35. Bxd5 fxe3 36. Bxc6 bxc6 37. Rf3 Re8 38. Rxe3 Rxe5 $11 {
{ The players agreed to a draw.; Enddate: 12/14/2005 }} 1/2-1/2
Are now the Computer Chess Programs strong like corr chess GMs? I seems YES!
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