Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 20:47:18 12/11/02
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On December 11, 2002 at 21:38:26, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. >;-) Not only that, but Rxd7 is a faster way to win. Bg6 may mate in 8, but Rxd7 wins in 1 because black resigns... Miguel
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