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Subject: Hard for humans,easy for computers? ==> Zaitsev vs Bonch-Osmolovski,1970

Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes

Date: 12:56:28 02/08/01


             Zaitsev vs Bonch-Osmolovski (USSR,1970)
    [D]2b1r2r/ppq1nk2/3Rn1pp/1Pp1Pp2/2B5/2B2N2/P2Q1PPP/3R2K1 w
     1.Bxe6+ Bxe6 2.Rxe6 Kxe6 3.Qxe6! 1-0
       Source: "The Penguin Book of Chess Positions",1973
                C.H.O'D.Alexander [page 163]
       The author writes: "As so often,the difficulty in finding 3.Qxh6!
                          lies in one's automatic rejection mechanism ---
                          one just doesn't consider it; it is particularly
                          hard to see such moves at the end of a combination."



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