Author: Georg Langrath
Date: 01:22:27 12/16/00
This is a very interesting position in my opinion. I showed it in this forum a couple of years ago. But there must be some new members in this forum since then. It is from a match between Spassky and Tal 1959. [D]6k1/8/p3r2p/1p1pPpp1/1n1pP3/1Pq4P/PR4PB/3QN1K1 b Tal played Qxb2 and lost. The only right move here is dxe4 It was showed in a German magazine for chesscomputers I think for about 12 years ago. None of the chesscomputers on that time managed to find the right move, even if you let them analyze for days. Today many programs find the right move in a couple of seconds. But not all. Chessmaster 6000 didn’t find it overnight on my computer (P2 450 mhz). It persisted in playing Qxb2. On the other hand Tiger ll doesn’t even consider Qxb2, which I find remarkable. It finds dxe4 at once and doesn’t change its mind. Very interesting is that this is a question of better programs. I mean if a program today find the right move in seconds, the same program had found the right move in days if it was in a chesscomputer of 1988. It is also very interesting to play eng-eng after the right move and the wrong move. I think that also many readers of this message will find this position very amusing. Georg
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