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Subject: Re: The Polgar bishop sacrifice

Author: K. Burcham

Date: 14:59:29 10/13/03

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On October 13, 2003 at 08:07:08, martin fierz wrote:

>On October 12, 2003 at 20:59:08, K. Burcham wrote:
>
>>Too easy for programs.
>>I assume GM Karpov forgot this from his studies.
>
>he must have been sleeping or something. every club player should realize in
>something like 2 seconds that Bxh7+ Kxh7 Qh5+ Kg8 Bxg7 is a classic combination
>(similar to e.g. the Bxh7+ Kxh7+ Qh5+ Kg8 Ng5 - type of combination, perhaps a
>bit less well known). of course, for us humans it takes some time to check the
>variations, and perhaps weaker players would not calculate it correctly etc etc;
>but that a player like karpov would "forget" this is just impossible. his
>tactical alarm bell didn't go off or something.
>
>cheers
>  martin


that was my point also. i used the word "forgot" to describe the same.
Karpov shows it is not impossible to miss this line, call it what you want.

kburcham



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