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Subject: Re: Nice tactical sacrifice plus king safety tuning.

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 18:42:58 12/09/02

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On December 08, 2002 at 18:08:41, Colin Frayn wrote:

>[D]r1b3k1/2pnn1bp/pp1p3r/2PPp1pq/1P2Pp2/Q1NN1P1P/P3BBP1/2R2RK1 b - -
>
>This just came up in an ICC game between Beowulf and Fritz 8.  Fritz (black)
>played Nxc5! here.  It's fairly tricky to spot - might require some searching.
>Beowulf had missed this rather nice tactical shot, which of course gives a
>devastating attack on white's king.
>

Beowulf made another terrible mistake at move 7: a computer playing white,
should never get into Classical King's Indian.


>Pity ... I was winning up to that point :(

Even without that sacrifice, white is strategically lost. Besides black's two
weak moves, ...b6 and ...a6, black has set up a good King's Indian buildup. I
don't see how white can stop the attack on his king (e.g., Bxh3).



>
>Cheers,
>Col



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