Author: Rob Basham
Date: 08:05:55 07/31/04
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On July 31, 2004 at 10:55:41, Drexel,Michael wrote: >On July 31, 2004 at 07:24:15, Mark Young wrote: > >>[d]3q3r/4b1k1/4P1p1/rpp2p1p/1nn2Q2/5N1P/P4PP1/RBB1R1K1 w >>Another GM sac refuted by computers? >> >>This position is from... >> >>GM Fischer - GM Leonid Stein >>Interzonal, Sousse 1967 >> >>GM Fischer played the (so called) winning move Bxf5! Annotators claim GM Fischer >>wins easily after Bxf5! gxf5 Qg3+ Kh7 Ng5+ Bxg5 Bxg5 Qe8(or Qd3). >> >>For this reason GM Stein played Qf8? and lost...but Bxf5 gxf5! seems to more >>then hold the position. Do any computers or humans disagree. > >Yes, Hiarcs 9 and Drexel 0.815. > >1. Bxf5 gxf5 2. Qg3+ Kh7 3. Ng5+ Bxg5 4. Bxg5 Ra3 5. Qf4 Qf8 (5... Qe8 6. Qxf5+ >Qg6 7. Qxc5 Rg8 8. h4) 6. e7 Qf7 7. e8=Q Rxe8 8. Rxe8 Qxe8 9. Qxf5+ * > >I would always prefer to play this with white. >Show me how to win with black with only the h-pawn to be left. > >True, Bxf5 doesn´t win easily. > >Btw, even dubious moves are sometimes the "best" moves. >After all Tal won a lot of games with rather unsound attacks. > >Michael > >> >>Example line. >>Bxf5 gxf5! Qg3+ Kh7 Ng5+ Bxg5 Bxg5 Ra3!. Very true; but "dubious moves" do not make good test moves...IHMO ...Bxf5 looks like he goofed here...:-) Rob
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