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Subject: Re: Simple rook sac

Author: Jouni Uski

Date: 03:17:01 03/02/04

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On March 01, 2004 at 20:36:30, Frank E. Oldham 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
>
>Crafty 19.10 just doesn't like the sacrifice idea ;-)
>It takes until depth 14 to find it -- Junior liking it at depth 9 is amazing --
>

No really, becaus Junior's plys are not same as normal plys...

Jouni



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