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Subject: Re: Simple rook sac

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 15:57:33 03/01/04

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On March 01, 2004 at 18:29:34, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>On March 01, 2004 at 18:01:21, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>I had the pleasure of playing the following rook sac in a blitz game a short
>>while ago. Since it turned out to be correct, I submit it to the engine fiends.
>>It resists some engines a bit on my old hardware, so it might make an
>>interesting addition to some test suite.
>>
>>[D]r2r2k1/ppq1bp2/2p1pnpB/8/1PP5/P1N3RP/2P1QPP1/4R1K1 w - -
>>
>>The key move is (rather obvious for a human though it needs to be worked out)
>>1.Rxg6! followed by fxg6 2.Qxe6+ Kh7 3.Qf7+ Kxh6 4.Rxe7 Qd6 5.Qg7+ followed by
>>the knight joining in.
>>
>>In the game my opponent dropped the knight with 4...Qc8 and resigned.
>>
>>                                   Albert
>
>Hi, can you give the whole game?

Sure, but bear in mind it's only a blitz game.

[Event ""]
[Site "chessclub.com"]
[Date "2004.3.1"]
[Round ""]
[White "Silver, Albert"]
[Black "NN"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "B01"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.Nf3 Bg4 5.h3 Bxf3 6.Qxf3 c6 7.Bc4
Nf6 8.O-O e6 9.Re1 Be7 10.d3 Nbd7 11.Bd2 Qb6 12.a3 O-O 13.b4
Bd6 14.Rad1 Ne5 15.Qe2 Nxc4 16.dxc4 Qc7 17.Bg5 Be7 18.Rd3 Rfd8
19.Rg3 h6 20.Bxh6 g6 21.Rxg6+ fxg6 22.Qxe6+ Kh7 23.Qf7+ Kxh6
24.Rxe7 Qc8 25.Qg7+ 1-0


>
>The first engine come to my mind was Deep Junior 8.ZX. Of course, it found
>this immediately.

What is DJ 8.ZX? What are the ZX for?

                              Albert



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