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Subject: Re: tiger's play too risky ?

Author: Josh Strayhorn

Date: 18:51:53 04/06/01

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On April 06, 2001 at 18:04:24, John Dahlem wrote:

>From what I've seen, Tiger's play is just fine.  You must remember it is still
>only a second generation program, and that it is designed to play risky chess.
>Think of Short and most of the very aggressive GMs in history.  Their style was
>occcasionally their doom, and they would lose to amateurs (I've read Morphy lost
>in 13 moves once, but I don't know the story behind it!).  But every time they
>win, it is a masterpiece.  Gambit is made to emulate that, and it does a very
>good job, I think.

[Event "Alabama"]
[Site "Alabama"]
[Date "1855"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Morphy, P."]
[Black "Maurian, C."]
[Result "0-1"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Bc4 Qh4+ 4. Kf1 b5 5. Bd5 Nc6 6. Nf3 Qh5 7. d4 Nf6
8. Bb3 Ba6 9. Qe2 Nxd4 10. Nxd4 b4 11. Qxa6 Qd1+ 12. Kf2 Ng4#
0-1





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