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Subject: Re: test position

Author: Sean Empey

Date: 13:00:03 08/24/04

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On August 24, 2004 at 14:12:41, Uri Blass wrote:

>[D]r3br2/2q2pbk/p2p1npp/nppP4/4PR2/1PP1B1NP/P1BNQ1P1/R5K1 w - - 0 1
>
>
>Yace could learn a score of +0.42 from 1.Nf5 from the following tree
>Liberzon said about the move 1.Nf5(typical sacrifice)
>
>I wonder if there are a lot of games when humans played a similiar sacrifice and
>if the sacrifice was also correct in these games.
>
>Here is analysis (note that in the game white blundered by 2.e5 but I tried to
>analyze to see if liberzon was correct when he said that white had a winning
>position after 2.Rxf5 and it seems that he was correct inspite of not proving a
>forced win)
>
>[Event "?"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "????.??.??"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "New game"]
>[Black "?"]
>[Result "*"]
>[SetUp "1"]
>[FEN "r3br2/2q2pbk/p2p1npp/nppP4/4PR2/1PP1B1NP/P1BNQ1P1/R5K1 w - - 0 1"]
>[PlyCount "5"]
>
>1. Nf5 gxf5 2. Rxf5 Nd7 (2... Kg8 3. Bxh6 Bxh6 (3... Nh7 4. Bxg7 Kxg7) 4. Rxf6
>Kg7 5. e5 Rh8 6. exd6) (2... Kh8 3. Bxh6 Nh7 (3... Bxh6 4. Rxf6 Kg7 5. e5) (
>3... Rg8 4. Bxg7+ Kxg7 5. e5) 4. Bxg7+ Kxg7 5. e5 f6 6. e6) (2... Ng8 3. e5 f6
>4. exd6 Qb7 5. Rxf6+ Kh8) 3. e5 *
>
>Uri

Storm

14&   10:17   0.93   1. Qf2 Ng8 2. Ne2 b4 3. Rd1 bxc3 4.
                     Nb1 Be5 5. Rf3 Kh8 6. Nbxc3 Qe7 7.
                     Rf1 Bb5

Storm never even looked at Nf5. Not sure how long it would have took. After 10
minutes I gave up.



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