Author: Otello Gnaramori
Date: 10:13:57 03/23/02
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On March 23, 2002 at 10:11:17, Uri Blass wrote: >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. > You are right , I have also translated not very well from italian the phrase : "that Fischer should have seen from the beginning" has to be read "that Fischer had probably seen from the beginning". >Black has a decisive material advantage in the game after move 25 thanks to the >sacrifice. > >The moves are easy for computers to find. Nowadays absolutely yes, but the book was written when "Belle" was born , approximately in the beginning of 80's. > >Uri
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