Author: Dadi Jonsson
Date: 14:44:34 10/31/02
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On October 31, 2002 at 17:34:33, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 31, 2002 at 17:32:12, Dadi Jonsson wrote: > >>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 - - > >They tend to find Morphy's brilliant moves quickly. His tactical greatness >seems to be easily matched by modern hardware. This game was played in 1990, so it wasn't Morphy who found this move. I also think that few (if any) programs would find this move under tournament time-controls (unless you piled a number of CPUs on it).
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