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

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 18:37:00 10/31/02

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On October 31, 2002 at 12:48:12, Bob Durrett wrote:

>On October 31, 2002 at 12:31:59, stuart taylor wrote:
>
>>On October 31, 2002 at 12:18:51, Matthias Gemuh wrote:
>>
>>>On October 31, 2002 at 12:11:50, stuart taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>[D]5r2/r3Npkp/3pn1p1/qbnNp2P/1p2P3/5P2/PP1QB1P1/1KR4R w - - 0 1
>>
>>
>>If that is some kind of mate after 1.Qh6 KxQ  2.hxg+ Kg4, then I don't consider
>>that absolutely extraordinary. (I gurantee you that I haven't set it up on a
>>computer, and I'm nowhere near GM level myself). All the warnings are very
>>visable in this position.
>>S.Taylor
>
>I believe that a chessplayer with a sacrificial style of play would have
>examined Qh6 first, before looking at ANY other moves!  Why?  Because it is the
>most outrageous sac available.

I'd say that white is himself threatened with mate, and the queen to h6, if
taken, immeadiately opens the Rook file against the king. Therefore the first
thing to do when seeing this fact, is to examine if there is a mate, which may
well be, or atleast, it is the best thing if there would be. I wouldn't call
that an outrageous thing to think of.
S.Taylor



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