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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