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Subject: Re: What an attack by Tal 2.03 against SOS: where was the blunder?

Author: Joachim Denzler

Date: 10:38:16 11/19/00

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On November 19, 2000 at 06:09:10, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 19, 2000 at 05:50:25, Joachim Denzler wrote:
>
>>In my current WINCOMMS tourney (http://home.t-online.de/~joachim.denzler) in
>>round 9 Chess System Tal 2.03 played against SOS and won quickly.
>>
>>I was really surprised by the attack of Tal and I am wondering where
>>the blunder of SOS was. Was the game decided already after the opening?
>>Why did SOS play 23 ... g5, following mate in 8 (analysis by Fritz6).
>
>I did not look at the game but I guess that the reason is that Sos is weak in
>tactics realative to other top programs.
>
>It also could not see a simple mate in WMCCC against nimzo(a mate that
>chessmaster can see in a few seconds).
>
>Uri

Thanks for the information. I missed this mate blunder of SOS during WMCCC.

Do you think that Tal 2.03 is stronger in tactics? I got the impression (from
numerous posts here and elsewhere) that Tal is not a tactical monster. Or was
the mate the result of the attacking style of Tal in a position where one could
miss the mate during analysis (I mean, are there positions, where it is easier
to miss a mate?).

Anyway, thanks for your reply!

Joachim



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