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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:02:45 10/31/02

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On October 31, 2002 at 13:18:01, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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!
>>S.Taylor
>
>[D]b2r3r/k4p1p/p2q1np1/NppP4/3p1Q2/P4PPB/1PP4P/1K1RR3 w - - 0 24
>
>There are some warning sings here, but it would never even occur to
>me that Rxd4 is playable, let alone correct.
>
>I remember at that time the combination was considered unfindable.
>Nowadays Sjeng finds it in half a minute.
>
>--
>GCP


Win at chess 141 is another that is not obvious to humans.  Tossing the queen
and it
isn't even a check or close to the king...

[D] 4r1k1/p1qr1p2/2pb1Bp1/1p5p/3P1n1R/1B3P2/PP3PK1/2Q4R w - - 0 1



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