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Subject: Re: In regards the the tiger versus crafty post bxa2 is sound!

Author: pete

Date: 15:19:17 08/14/00

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On August 14, 2000 at 17:49:12, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On August 14, 2000 at 15:38:49, pete wrote:
>
>>>
>>>But black gets a pawn majority on the queenside, and the a pawn is passed...
>>>
>>>
>>>    Christophe
>>
>>The position I posted seems to be _very_ close to the borderline when it is
>>about trapped bishops ; most humans will not like a move like that at first
>>sight , if it worked people would think differently though .
>>
>>When I tried to name the factors I came to a similar assessment ; so it seems to
>>be wrong to play Bxa2 here I still think but it seems to be very hard to name in
>>general terms ( and it might even be proved it is not wrong at all later .. ) .
>>
>>Btw, I personally thought the other position was much more interesting anyway
>>;-)
>>
>>pete
>
>I remember the match Fischer-Spassky, Reijkjavic Spassky playing Bxh2?
>in an ending surprising the whole chess community. So comps are in
>good company :)
>
>Ed

Challenging , I will not look that up , but my memory tells me it was the 1st
game of the match when Fisher ( with black ) played Bxa2 and eventually lost as
it was simply bad ;-) ; at least I remember for sure Fisher was the one losing
...





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