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Subject: Re: Is this move really the best?

Author: Pete R.

Date: 15:36:26 05/02/00

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On May 02, 2000 at 16:36:46, KarinsDad wrote:

>On May 02, 2000 at 15:18:54, blass uri wrote:
>
>>On May 02, 2000 at 14:25:38, Pete Galati wrote:
>>
>>>On May 02, 2000 at 09:07:42, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>In my set of tactical test positions there is the following example:
>>>>
>>>>[D] 2rqk2r/pb1nbp1p/4p1p1/1B1n4/Np1N4/7Q/PP3PPP/R1B1R1K1 w k – bm Rxe6
>>>>
>[snip]
>>
>>After
>>1.Rxe6 fxe6 2.Nxe6 Qa5 3.Bxd7+ Kxd7 4.Nec5+ Ke8 5.Qd7+ Kf7 6.Nxb7 Rc7
>>white is losing and white has no logical alternative to avoid this line after
>>1.Rxe6 except 2.Bh6.
>>
>
>I do not get why the following is not a logical alternative.
>
>1.Rxe6 fxe6 2.Nxe6 Qa5 3.Bxd7+ Kxd7 4.Nec5+ Ke8 5.Qd7+ Kf7 6. Bh6+ Kf7 7. Ne6
>threatening 8. Ng5 Qxg5 9. Bxg5. Now, black can probably escape this, but his
>king is fairly exposed. And granted, this is many ply down, so hard to see for a
>program, but quite a few of these moves are basically forced, so I would think
>that extensions would be in order.
>
>Is there something I am missing?
>
>KarinsDad :)

Yes, at least here your line at move 6 makes no sense.  How can Bh6 be a check,
and then the king on f7 move to f7?



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