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Subject: Re: Real sacrifices.

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 02:45:44 12/11/98

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On December 10, 1998 at 16:34:20, Georg Langrath wrote:

>In the begining chesscomputers never made real sacrifices for position. Super
>Constellation was the first chesscomputer that was able to do that.
>
>Dear members of CCC. Have you nice examples of genuine sacrifices from your
>chesscomputers? They are nice to look at, and it is interesting to examine if
>other programs make the sacrifice. Of course all sacrifices are not healthy, but
>they are always nice to look at, especially from chesscomputers.
>
>Please answer this notice with sacrifices from your computers. I think we all
>like to examine them.

Here is one against a strong human in a blitz game.  The move 6. ... d5
sacrifices a pawn, is by no means forced, and black's compensation is nebulous.
I asked an IM what he thought of this move and he told me it was "stupid".

bruce

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[Event "ICC 5 5 12/22/97"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "1997.12.22"]
[Round "-"]
[White "KTW"]
[Black "Ferret"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2847"]
[BlackElo "3103"]
[ECO "A22"]
[NIC "EO.11"]
[LongECO "English: Bremen, Smyslov system"]

 1. c4 e5        2. Nc3 Nf6      3. g3 Bb4       4. Bg2 O-O      5. d3 c6
 6. Bg5 d5       7. Bxf6 Qxf6    8. cxd5 cxd5    9. Bxd5 Nc6    10. a3 Ba5
11. Bg2 Rd8     12. b4 Bb6      13. Nf3 Bf5     14. Qb3 Nd4     15. Nxd4 Bxd4
16. O-O Be6     17. Qb2 Rac8    18. Rac1 e4     19. Nxe4 Bxf2+
{White resigns} 0-1




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