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Subject: Re: One of the most daring sacrifices ever played!!

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:16:32 10/30/03

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On October 30, 2003 at 15:42:57, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On October 30, 2003 at 14:39:42, Darren Rushton wrote:
>
>>[D] r5k1/ppp2r1p/3p3b/3Pn3/1n2PPp1/1P2K1P1/PBB1N2q/R2Q3R b - - 0 1
>>
>>Does your program find 24...Rxf4!!!
>
>As others have pointed out, the move 24... Rxf4 in itself is not hard to find.
>My engine
>finds it in less than a second on a PIV 2.4 GHz (in fact, this position is what
>I use in the
>benchmark feature in Gothmog).  However, so far no engine has shown the right
>PV.
>After 24... Rxf4 25. Rxh2 Rf3+ 26. Kd4, they all want to play 26... c5 instead
>of the
>stronger and much more beautiful move 26... Bg7! played by Nezhmetdinov.
>Gothmog
>doesn't find 26... Bg7 even if I let it start analysing at the position after
>26. Kd4.
>
>The really remarkable thing about this incredible game (considered by many to be
>the
>most beautiful chess game ever played) is of course that Nezhmetdinov must have
>calculated the whole combination many moves in advance.  Perhaps Dann is right
>that
>he would also have found 24... Rxf4, but it is no coincidence that Nezhmetdinov
>regularly reached positions where this kind of tactics is possible, while the
>rest of
>us (and our engines!) hardly ever do.
>
>Tord

Can you post the whole game? What was played after 26...Bg7?

jm



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