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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