Author: stuart taylor
Date: 19:16:46 10/31/02
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On October 31, 2002 at 15:06:52, K. Burcham 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 > > >Depends on your meaning. >This knight sacrifice should win for black. >11...Nxf2 >This move is in the Tiger ct.tbk book. Of course tiger would never play into >this position. There are several moves in this line Tiger will not play. > >Set this position up and see how long it takes your program to play this move. >If your program wont play this move, then take the f2 pawn and see how long it >takes your programs score to show white is down with the knight sacrifice. > > > [D] r2q1rk1/ppp1b1pp/2n5/3p1p2/3Pn1b1/2PB4/PPQN1PPP/RNB1R1K1 b - - 0 1 > >[White "Kugayevsky"] >[Black "Kmielevsky"] >[Result "0-1"] >[ECO "C42"] > >1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 >d5 6. Bd3 Be7 7. O-O Nc6 8. Re1 Bg4 9. c3 >f5 10. Qc2 O-O 11. Nfd2 Nxf2 12. Rxe7 Bd1 0-1 Yes, that looks unexpected because it's not followed by a check or any detectably seriously attacking open lines. I would often like to play this against a computer (due to my highly imaginative tendency) but I would find it hard to expect that it would not be defendable by a computer program. S.Taylor
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