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Subject: Re: Sharing my chess ignorance! A little test for novices like me.[pic]

Author: Matthew White

Date: 15:06:09 03/03/03

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On March 03, 2003 at 17:02:36, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On March 03, 2003 at 16:42:05, Albert Bertilsson wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>Warning! This is probably very easy for most of you with an intrest in chess,
>>for anybody like me (intrested in programming, bad chess player) it could be
>>something to think about though...
>>
>>Sharper put itself in this position:
>>
>[d]2k4r/2p5/6RB/4qp1Q/7P/P3P3/3r3P/R5K1 w - -
>>
>>With little time to think it made the bad move Qf5. Giving a second more it
>>found Qf3. Since I could not believe that Sharper would lose that game (the 20
>>latest moves it had a quite nice advantage I simply couldn't understand what
>>happened. Then I gave the position to crafty and saw how bad it thought the
>>position was. After looking at it very carefully I also understood what the
>>catch was.
>>
>>Can you see it too?
>>
>>/Regards Albert
Just by looking at the position, it appears to me that Qxf5+ leads to rapid
mate, since the black rook on the second rank traps the king.

Matt



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