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Subject: Re: Do you have pos. of truly unexpected sac. which is sound? Does it exist?

Author: Dadi Jonsson

Date: 14:32:12 10/31/02

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The following sac was "truly unexpected". The player of the black pieces wrote a
book(?) including this game and said he nearly fell off his chair when he saw
White's next move. It is understandable that the move was unexpected. White
sacrifice's his rook for the pawn on e6, which is thoroughly protected by two
other pawns. Few human beings would have the imagination required to even start
thinking about this possibility. This move is on Tim Krabbe's list of the
greatest moves ever played.

In spite of the above, this may not be such a spectacular move to a chess
program! Many of them will find this move, given enough time. I believe that the
original poster was asking for "truly unexpected sac" for us human beings and
that is a different story!

 [D] rn1r2k1/pq1p1ppp/3Rp3/2p5/2P1b3/4QNP1/P3PPBP/3R2K1 w - -



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