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Subject: Re: Real sacrifices.

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 03:15:16 12/11/98

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On December 11, 1998 at 05:45:44, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>>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

Against a computer it wouldn't have worked, there are not enough weaknesses in
the white position. Here the human obviously blundered in a blitz game, that is
nothing unusual.




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