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

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 16:18:53 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.

I like this because: in one line it ends in smothered mate.

Bob D.



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