Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 03:39:49 02/04/04
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On February 04, 2004 at 06:20:53, Thorsten Czub wrote: >in this case very obvious ideas (from the point of view of a human beeing). This human does not find them obvious at all. The game is really cool, and the bishop sac on h6 is very interesting. Nevertheless, I am very surprised that it worked. I haven't analyzed the game in any depth, but intuitively the sac looks very unsound to me. After Bxh6 gxh6 Qxh6, white has no attacking pieces except the queen, and needs several moves to bring pieces to the attack. Black's king is temporarily exposed, but from a superficial glance at the position it looks like black should be able to bring defenders to the kingside more quikly than white can add more fuel to the fire. I am not claiming that the sac is necessarily unsound, but it is very counter-intuitive to me. It is a move I would be more surprised to see from a strong human than from a computer (if such a move is played by a program other than CST, I just assume that it has found some very deep tactical win). Gothmog, my own attempt to emulate the style and feel of CST, does not like Bxh6. It thinks two pawns and an exposed enemy king is not enough to compensate for a bishop when there is only one attacking piece. Tord
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