Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 17:09:22 10/27/02
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On October 27, 2002 at 19:03:55, Arshad Syed wrote: >One can't help but notice the difference in quality between the games played by >masters from a previous era such as Lasker, Tal, Fischer, Capablanca etc. The >games were so unique and singular, you couldn't help but remember some feature >of the game which made it really spectacular. For instance, a Queen sacrifice or >multiple piece sacrifices. By contrast, even the World Championship games of >recent times have nothing distinguishing which etches them in memory. This might >probably because of the closing gap between the top class players. > >Anyway, I was wondering how those masters would have coped with the chess >programs of today. Anyone here replay the positions from some of those legacy >masterpieces? One good one for example, would be the Queen sacrifice by Fischer >versus Byrne. Would he really be able to carry that through against Deep Fritz >or would he end up like Kramnik ... "...it could have been the most beautiful >game of my life." > >Regards, >Arshad The combination you are reffering to was played in 1956, Donald Byrne vs. Bobby Fischer. Fischer was only 13 at the time! It's reffered to as the "Game of the Century", and the Q sac was completely sound. The difference is, Deep Fritz would never have played into such a position, in the first place. If it had I'm sure it would put up more resistance, but it would still have lost. White's position was hopeless. You can plug the position into any good programme on reasonable hardware and it will evaluate Black's position as winning. Terry
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