Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 15:57:15 03/22/03
I was setting different positions found in the book { The Most Instructive Games
of Chess Ever Played) by Irving Chernev. We all know that these 62 Masterpieces
of Chess Strategy were played by Humans, but after testing different positions,
I found out that most of them were solved by today's top programs. It is about
time for somebody to collect at least 50 great games played by top computer
programs and publish it. Anyway, here is an interesting
position played by Smyslov vs Reshevsky Moscow 1948.
How many programs besides Fritz 8 and Shredder 7 play the correct move 26.Qh4!
Quoted by Chernev as a Clever play! The idea is to force an exchange which rid
the board of Black's Queen, the only defender of the Queen Pawn. There is no way
to save the pawn, since 26...Qd7 is answered by Qd8+, and if QxQ 27. PxQ and the
d6 pawn is beyond help.
[D]rn5k/1p2q1p1/pB1pp2p/4p3/4P1Q1/2P3P1/PP3P1P/3R2K1 w - - 0 1
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