Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 15:25:42 11/02/02
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On October 31, 2002 at 21:37:00, stuart taylor wrote: >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 I agree. I wouldn't call that an outrageous thing to think of either. Technically, however, he who mates first wins. If you could find a forced line leading to mate [a series of checks] of your opponent then the fact that your king is threatened would be irrelevant. Bob D.
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