Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:43:43 10/28/02
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On October 28, 2002 at 16:29:38, Terry Ripple wrote: >I found this position from an earlier post and the poster claims that Fritz 7 >found the continuation of "Rxd4" in which Hiarcs 8 didn't know what to do. He >claimed that about 5 moves later the opponent resigned after this sacrifice! > >My point is that my Fritz 7 didn't see this sacrifice after 1 hour,38 minutes, >but my pc is only a AMD 266 Mhz with 64 ram, though this should be enough time! > >[D]2qr2k1/p4ppp/Pp1Pp3/1Qp1P3/2Pn1P2/B6P/6P1/3R2K1 w Chess Tiger 14 seems to like Qb2 almost exclusively on my computer. 2qr2k1/p4ppp/Pp1Pp3/1Qp1P3/2Pn1P2/B6P/6P1/3R2K1 w - - ce -15; acd 16; acs 999; pv Qb2 Qxa6 Rc1 Qa4 Kh2 f6 Rc3 Qd1 Qc1 Qxc1 Bxc1 Nc6 Re3 Na5 Rc3 Nc6;|Qb5b2 The score seems to be about the same as Rxd4, so maybe it is a matter somewhat of chance which of these two moves programs prefer. I would be curious to know from a "human chess guru" why it is that Rxd4 is better than Qd2 (other than the fact that it is a lot prettier).
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