Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:38:07 05/22/04
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On May 21, 2004 at 20:05:00, Uri Blass wrote:
>On May 21, 2004 at 19:32:33, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>
>>Black threatens mate and white's Queen. What white should play?
>>Give it's Queen of course! Qf4!! and white is winning.
>>
>> Impressive for humans but not for computers, as any chess engine can solve
>>this in seconds....
>>
>>[D]1kbr3r/pp6/8/P1n2ppq/2N3n1/R3Q1P1/3B1P2/2R2BK1 w - - 0 1
>
>I think that it is also easy for humans because white has no logical choice and
>it is easy to see by elimination that other moves are bad.
>
>Even at blitz time control the second best alternative Bg2 is rejected
>immediatly when
>Qf4+ gxf4 Bxf4+ Ka8 Nb6+ and maybe I have something is considered as better.
>
>Uri
It is possible that in a real game a human chess player playing white would
simply resign and miss the fact that there is a mate in X in this position.
Christophe
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