Author: Uri Blass
Date: 07:11:17 03/23/02
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On March 23, 2002 at 08:33:52, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >I've got a book titled "Men and Intelligent Machines" by Jeremy Bernstein ( >edited by Adelphi in Italy) where in chapter "3.Programming Intelligence" we can >read (translation from italian): >(...) >"A famous example is the game that Bobby Fischer, thirteen years old, played >against the American master Donald Byrne - for many experts the most beautiful >game of the century (1956, New York). >At 17th move , for reasons evident only to him, Fischer sacrificed the Queen. >The resulting combination was so deep, that the mate ( that Fischer should have >seen from the beginning) came 14 moves later. Fisher did not have to see the mate from the initial position in order to find the right moves. Black has a decisive material advantage in the game after move 25 thanks to the sacrifice. The moves are easy for computers to find. Uri
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