Levy - DT match (3).
Peter Jansen
At this point, Levy had to win just to keep any chances to tie the match.
But it is extremely doubtful that going for massive complications with
6. e4!? was the right approach. Fact is that he made several tactical
inaccuracies, making his position slide downhill rapidly.
After the game Levy said he had totally overlooked DT's 7. ... Nh7!
(which, incidentally, would have brought DT back in book after 8. Qh5+).
During the game, Levy seemed clearly more nervous than the two previous
days, and also showed signs of a bad cold (not too surprising given
the magnitude of the flu epidemic London was going through).
He may also have been disturbed by the TV people, who were packing
their equipment (fairly noisily) just when Levy was considering his
6th move. In any case, Levy did not look for excuses: he called DT
"a very strong opponent" and said he had fully expected to lose
against it.
When I went downstairs after the game, almost everyone had already left,
and the atmosphere was one of depression (I felt). Keene's choice of words
in the Times the following morning is telling: "utterly crushed","marks a
new stage in chess history", "...Kasparov [...] may soon be one of the select
few who can still beat this mechanical monster", "the human player was not
given a shred of chance" etc....
David Levy - Deep Thought (Game 3: London, 12/13/89)
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There was no agreement as to the value of 6. e4!?, but the consensus
was that Levy, given his relative tactical weakness, should definitely
have played 6. e3 instead. On the other hand, most commentators would
not hesitate to play the move themselves (Norwood, Kopec, Speelman).
8. Nc4, however, received bad marks from all of them.
Even so, DT thought Levy was only about one pawn behind, until Levy
made the program considerably happier with inaccuracies like 14. exd6+?
and 15. d5? Perhaps white could still hae continued the fight with
17. O-O-O, but he went for a hallucination instead with 17. Nd4?,
which was easily parried by DT's Qe7+.
The rest is a little demonstration by DT, and when it played 22. ... Nf4!
(intending a mate in 4 after 23. Qxh8?) Levy decided he had had enough
and resigned (the extra moves posted by Jonathan Schaeffer were spurious
side effects of my attempts at communication with Pittsburgh...).
1. d4 f5
2. Bg5 c6
3. c3 h6 (3.5)
4. Bf4 (.5) Nf6 (7)
5. Nd2 (4) d6 (11)
6. e4!? (15) g5 (15)
7. e5 (15) Nh7 (19)
8. Nc4(?) (34) gxf4 (25)
9. Qh5+ (34) Kd7 (25.5)
10. Qxf5+ (34.5) Kc7 (29)
11. Qxf4 (35) Be6 (33)
12. Nf3 (36.5) Rg8 (35)
13. Ne3 (49) Ng5! (39)
14. exd6(?)(66) exd6 (44.5)
15. d5(?) (69) Bxd5 (47.5)
16. Nxd5 (70) cxd5 (50)
17. Nd4? (73.5) Qe7+ (53)
18. Be2 (73.5) Nc6 (56)
19. Nb5+ (78) Kb8 (59.5)
20. h4(?) (81) Ne6 (62.5)
21. Qf3 (87) Ne5 (65.5)
22. Qxd5(?)(93.5) Nf4! (68.5)
White resigns.
(To be continued)
-- Peter
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