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Subject: Re: Topalov-Shirov,Linares 1998 [47...Bh3!!]

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:17:28 03/24/00

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On March 24, 2000 at 16:40:01, James Robertson wrote:
>On March 24, 2000 at 16:14:57, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote:
>>Topalov-Shirov,Linares 1998
>[D]8/8/4rpp1/3p1b2/p6P/2B5/6P1/6K1 b - -
>A diagram, hopefully.

... Be7!!
would be pretty amazing here, considering that black does not even have a bishop
of that color.  No wonder programs don't find it!!
The stupid bean counters have no imagination for a move like that.
;-)

>
>>Here Shirov played the amazing move 47...Be7!!
>>48.gxh3 Kf5 49.Kf2 Ke4 50.Bxf6 d4 51.Be7 Kd3
>>52.Bc5 Kc4 53.Be7 Kb3 0-1
>>Pattern matching at its wonderful best!,the
>>"bean counters" would never found out 47...Be7!!
>>Source:                           Enjoy,JAFM
>>http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess/fant100.htm



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