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Subject: Re: Neat Problem ...

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 18:38:26 12/11/02

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On December 11, 2002 at 19:52:42, Bob Durrett wrote:

>On December 11, 2002 at 18:37:32, Art Basham wrote:
>
>>White mates in about 7 or 8 ....
>>
>>See if you can find the correct first move here
>>*before* you "ask your computer"...:-)
>>
>>Some engines have trouble with the first move on this one!
>>
>>RxQ...No!
>>
>>[D]5k2/3qR3/1p1r4/p2p4/3P3Q/3B3P/P4PP1/6K1 w - - 0 1
>
>This is typical of the positions I have taken from my games.  In each case, I
>played the wrong, but often "obvious," move in the actual game and later learned
>during post-mortem analysis that there was something much better.
>
>Study of positions you failed to solve in the past seems a good idea to me.

In any case, I take the queen rather than the bishop move every time.
That's because it's harder to screw up fatally after you do that.
;-)



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