Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:31:49 10/31/02
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On October 31, 2002 at 12:11:50, stuart taylor wrote: >What I'm really interested in is REAL genius. When I was younger, sacrifices >which are quite normal for me to imagine now, were then quite unbelievable. > But now, whenever I think something might be really great, a computer normally >shows it not too be sound. In fact, I haven't seen anything truly extraordinary >and unexpected for a long time. Perhaps I'm already familiar with all the >warning signs that one encounters in practical games, so things are not so >unbelievable-for me. > Didn't Tal have some things which no one else would have imagined? were they >sound? > But I mean REALLY unexpected! I think that if we call something a sacrifice, we *cannot* know that it is sound. If we know for certain that it is sound, then it is only a deep combination. The term sacrifice itself indicates some kind of risk, I think.
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