Author: stuart taylor
Date: 06:36:15 05/14/04
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On May 14, 2004 at 09:30:57, stuart taylor wrote: >On May 13, 2004 at 15:02:17, Harald Faber wrote: > >>On May 13, 2004 at 14:01:47, Eduard Nemeth wrote: >> >>>On May 13, 2004 at 12:47:25, Thorsten Czub wrote: >>> >>>CSTal2.03 - Shredder8, cst2.03-shredder8 2004 >>> >>>[D]r4rk1/2q1bpp1/p1bppn1p/1p6/4P3/P1N1BP2/1PPQB1PP/1K1R3R w - - 0 1 >>> >>>CSTal2.03 played now Bxh6!! Very strong tactical move. >>> >>>Eduard >> >> >>In clearly more than 90% of such CSTal sacs they had come up as incorrect and >>later on CSTal lost. This example here is just a lucky punch. If Bxh6 wouldn't >>work, CSTal would play it anyway. > >And in this case it's a perfect winning sacrifice? (I can't easily follow games >with my computer as I don't have the setup for it). >It gets 2 Pawns for a Bishop, and hurts Black King position, but is there so >much after that? (Or did Shredder 8 just defend badly?) >S.Taylor Well, Blacks light squared bishop is quite bad, and his QR and Q are not well placed for defence. That might indeed be worth more than a third pawn. S.Taylor
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