Author: Jeffrey Wadsworth
Date: 17:31:07 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 My favorite game to check out with my chess engines is Botvinnik vs Tal game 6 from their first championship match in 1960. 21...n-f4 is pretty sweet but the followup move 24...f3 allows white a chance to win it. It is incredibly deep. Going over the old master's games...hard to beat.
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