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Subject: Re: Avoid move === Adams vs Simonson, New York 1940 [20...Qxd5]

Author: bobby palacios

Date: 09:47:46 04/04/03

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On April 04, 2003 at 11:44:08, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote:

>   Adams vs Simonson, New York 1940
>   [D]r3r1k1/pp3ppp/3b4/3P1q2/1n1B1P2/3B1P2/PP2Q2P/1K1R2R1 b
>Simonson here essayed 20...Qxd5, which would have lost to the beautiful
>double-rook sac 21.Rxg7+! Kf8 22.Rg8+!! Kxg8 23.Rg1+ Kf8 24.Bg7+ Kg8 25.Bf6+ Kf8
>26.Rg8+!! Kxg8 27.Qg2+ Kf8 28.Qg7#, if only Adams had seen it. Instead he
>sacrificed a bishop: 21.Bxh7+?? Kxh7 22.Rxg7+ Kh6!, 0-1.
>    Source ==> http://www.chesscafe.com/REVIEWS/books.HTM

This one is easy for most engines.  They don't even consider ..Qxd5, since the
mate is easy to find starting with Rxg7.



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