Author: stuart taylor
Date: 19:01:12 10/31/02
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On October 31, 2002 at 13:31:49, Dann Corbit 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! > >I think that if we call something a sacrifice, we *cannot* know that it is >sound. If we know for certain that it is sound, then it is only a deep >combination. The term sacrifice itself indicates some kind of risk, I think. I mean, something which is so deep and wierd that a person is used to considering it, even a very combinative player. Only a super genius or the like. S.Taylor
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