Monday, January 2, 2023

Barbara Kaczorowska plus Miscellaneous

     Before getting to the subject matter of this post, I discovered a "secret" in auto-annotating a game with Fritz 17 and ChessBase 16. Both programs insert what are, to me, annoying and superfluous medals, colored marks that are given to games which have some extraordinary aspect: best game, tournament decider, model game, novelty, repertoire, strategy, tactics, etc. 
     How to get rid of them?! Load the game then access the medals dialog by double clicking on the medal. You can then use the mouse to uncheck the boxes which have been ticked in order to remove those medals from the notation. Unfortunately, this possibility is only available in the ChessBase program, not Fritz. Now on to the post...
     1996...the year President Bill Clinton (aka"Slick Willie") was re-elected to a second term, beating out Kansas Senator Bob Dole and billionaire, politician and philanthropist Ross Perot. 
     Unabomber Theodore John Kaczynski, who had terrorized the nation for nearly 20 years, was arrested by the FBI. Gasoline cost $1.23 a gallon, but what about bacon? 
     If you lived in 1940, bacon cost 23 cents a pound (adjusted for inflation that would be $3.91 today) and throughout the 1940s and 1950s, it never cost more than 67 cents a pound. 
     The 1960s saw bacon inching upward in price and for the first time in 1973, bacon prices exceeded a dollar a pound and throughout the 1980s, prices climbed towards $2. 
     In 1996, bacon was $3.20 a pound...that's $6.07 in today's dollars, so the $3.99 sale price for the pound of bacon I cooked for breakfast this morning was was great deal! 
     In 1996, probably the most talked about chess event came in Philadelphia on February 1st when Garry Kasparov beat IBM's Deep Blue by a score of 4-2. When it won the first game Deep Blue became the first computer to beat a world champion under tournament conditions. 
     Deep Blue's calculating wasn't much by today's standards: 50 billion positions every 3 minutes using 200 processors. 
     You could buy a Master-rated table top chess program, the Novag Zircon II, for $134. It had a 2 inch King and 1 inch squares and ran on six AA batteries (or an optional adapter). 
     Barbara Kaczorowska (born 21 October 1960), nee Szumiło, won the Polish Women's Championship in 1993 and holds the FIDE Woman IM which she received in 1989. From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s she was one of the leading Polish women players. She won the Polish Junior Championship in 1978 and 1979 in the Under 20 category. From 1975 to 1996 she played 14 times in the Polish Women's Championship finals and in 1989 represented Poland at the Women's World Championship zonal tournament in Brno. 
 
 
     In the following game Kaczorowska scores a nice tactical win in the 1996 Polish Women's Championship 

A game that I liked (Fritz 17)

[Event "Polish Women's Champ, Brzeg Dolny"] [Site "Brzeg Dolny POL"] [Date "1996.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Barbara Kaczorowska"] [Black "Sylwia Romaszko"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B06"] [Annotator "Stockfish 15.1"] [PlyCount "79"] [EventDate "1996.??.??"] {Modern Defense} 1. d4 g6 {In the Modern Defense black allows white to occupy the center with Ps on d4 and e4, then attempts to attack and undermine the ideal center without attempting to occupy it.} 2. e4 Bg7 3. g3 d6 4. Bg2 f5 ( 4... Nf6 5. Nc3 O-O 6. Nge2 c5 {Predke,A (2690)-Nikolaev,M (1925) Moscow 2020 (by transposition) was the accepted treatment of this line; black's move is too risky in that it leads to a loosening of the K-side.}) 5. exf5 gxf5 { Horrible! At least taking with the B develops a piece.} 6. Qh5+ {Of course!} Kf8 7. Nf3 {This move, shutting off the Qs retreat, is not the best. The Q has accomplished its mission and so returning to d1 was best...the loss of time was worth displacing black's K. White could also have considered 7.Nh3} Nf6 8. Qh4 h6 9. Nc3 Nc6 10. O-O Bd7 11. a3 Qe8 {Better was 11...e6} 12. Qf4 (12. d5 { would have taken advantage of black's lapse last move.} Ne5 13. Nxe5 dxe5 14. Qb4 {with an excellent position.}) 12... e5 {Further opening up the position cannot be good. Building up her defense with moves like ...Qf7, ...Re8 and ... e6 would have been a safer path.} 13. dxe5 $16 dxe5 14. Qc4 Be6 (14... Qf7 15. Qc5+ Qe7 16. Qxe7+ Kxe7 {was better.}) 15. Qb5 {Attacking the b-Pawn looks OK, but the Q has moved one square too far.} (15. Qc5+ Qe7 16. Qb5 e4 { Counterattacking.} (16... Rb8 {is no better.} 17. Nxe5 Nxe5 18. Qxe5 Nd5 19. Qe2 Nxc3 20. bxc3 Bxc3 21. Rb1 b6 22. Bf4 {white is better.}) 17. Qxb7 Qe8 18. Nh4 Rb8 19. Qxc7 {Here, too, white stands very well.}) 15... Bc8 {This is too passive of a defense!} (15... a6 {This baits a nifty little trap and if white falls for it, she would lose the game.} 16. Qc5+ (16. Qxb7 Ra7 {and the Q is trapped.}) 16... Qe7 {and black has equalized. The difference between this position and the position after 15.Qc5+ is that here white has no threats on the b-Pawn or on the long white diagonal.}) 16. Be3 {16.Re1 packed more punch.} Kg8 17. Rad1 Kh7 18. Rfe1 a6 19. Qc5 Qe6 (19... Qe7 20. Qxe7 Nxe7 21. Nxe5 { wins}) 20. Bg5 Bf8 21. Qe3 Ng4 22. Qc1 Bc5 {White's small slip on move 15 has allowed black to equalize. However, the pressure is on black because one slip is likely to prove disastrous.} 23. Rd2 Rg8 {Rather pointless. Black needs to play aggressively and so 23...e4 was called for.} (23... e4 24. Bf4 Qf7 25. Nh4 Be7 26. Nd5 Bxh4 27. gxh4 Nge5 {with a satisfactory game.}) 24. Bh4 {Missing a good opportunity.} (24. h3 Nxf2 25. Rxf2 hxg5 26. Nxg5+ Rxg5 27. Qxg5 Bxf2+ 28. Kxf2 {and white stands well.}) 24... e4 {Equalizing.} 25. h3 Nge5 {This proves fatal. 25... Nf6 preventing white next move was required.} (25... Nf6 {Things get messy, but black stays safe.} 26. b4 (26. Bxf6 {Intending to play Nd5 anyway.} Qxf6 27. Nd5 Qf7 28. b4 (28. Nh2 {The N cannot move.} Rxg3) 28... exf3 29. bxc5 fxg2 {Black is better.}) 26... Bd6 27. Rdd1 Bd7 28. Nd2 Raf8 {Here comes the tactics!} 29. Ncxe4 fxe4 30. Nxe4 Nxe4 31. Bxe4+ Rg6 32. Bxc6 (32. Bxg6+ Qxg6 {is unclear.}) 32... Qf5 33. Be4 Qxf2+ 34. Kh1 Bc6 35. Bxc6 bxc6 36. Rd3 {with equal chances.}) 26. Nxe5 Nxe5 27. Nd5 {This is OK, but she missed a neat tactic.} (27. Nxe4 fxe4 28. Bxe4+ Kg7 29. b4 Bd6 30. f4 Ng6 31. f5 { and wins}) 27... Rg7 28. Nf6+ (28. Rxe4 {Flashy, but no better than the text.} fxe4 29. Nf6+ Kg6 30. Bxe4+ Kf7 31. Bd5 Nf3+ 32. Bxf3 (32. Kg2 Nxh4+ {and black is better!}) 32... Rxg3+ 33. Bxg3 Qxf6 34. Qd1 {and white is winning.}) 28... Kg6 29. Qd1 Rf7 30. Nh5 Kh7 31. Nf4 Qc6 32. Qh5 (32. Rd5 {was stronger.} Ng6 33. Nxg6 Kxg6 34. Rxe4 fxe4 35. Qh5+ Kg7 36. Qe5+ Kg8 37. Rd8+ Bf8 (37... Rf8 38. Bxe4 {also wins}) 38. Bxe4 {with a winning attack.}) 32... Bd7 33. Bxe4 {This imprecise move loses a great deal of white's advantage. 33.Rd5 would have been crushing.} (33. Rd5 {is a crusher although in all fairness accurately calculating the results was beyond the range of all but an engine.} Bxf2+ 34. Kxf2 Qb6+ 35. Re3 Ng6 36. Bg5 Nh8 37. Be7 Be8 38. Bc5 Qxb2 39. Bd4 Qxc2+ 40. Re2 Qc6 41. Rxf5 Rd7 42. Bxe4) 33... fxe4 34. Qxe5 Re8 35. Qd5 { This allows black to equalize!} (35. Qh5 {is a different outcome.} Ref8 36. Rd5 {That move again!} Rf5 37. Rxd7+ Qxd7 38. Qg6+ Kh8 39. Qxh6+ Kg8 40. Rxe4 { and black is doomed.}) 35... Qxd5 36. Nxd5 (36. Rxd5 {is equal.} Ba7) 36... Re5 {[%mdl 8192] The fatal blunder.} (36... e3 37. fxe3 Bc6 {with equal chances.}) 37. Nf6+ {White is clearly winning after this.} Rxf6 38. Bxf6 Rf5 39. Rxd7+ Kg6 40. Bd4 {Black resigned.} 1-0

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