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Subject: Re: Tough position

Author: Yar

Date: 16:30:03 07/11/00

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On July 11, 2000 at 19:25:38, Mike S. wrote:

5. NxQc7 is incorrect

>On July 11, 2000 at 18:57:11, KarinsDad wrote:
>
>>(...)
>>I cannot imagine that the statement above of "Not a lot of GM's were able to
>>solve this" has any basis in fact or reality. (...)
>
>I wouldn't be that surprised... of course any IM or GM is a chess god compared
>with me, but if you think of the calculations to see the main idea at first...
>And then, in the continuation after 1.Bg2, white has to leave black's queen on
>the board for one more move by playing 5.Bh3+ instead of 5.NxQc7, as Uri tells
>us. This is in the 9th ply, requiring some more moves to look ahead and see that
>5.NxQ is wrong - this is easy to miss, at least if someone has to work it out in
>the head only.
>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl



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