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Subject: Re: A True Positional Sacrifice!

Author: Steve Maughan

Date: 05:26:28 03/25/05

Martin,

This is a really great position - a true positional sacrifice by Shredder 9.

>[D]r1b1r1k1/1pn1qnbp/3p1pp1/pPp5/2PNPPP1/P1N1B1R1/3QB2P/3R3K w - - 0 21
>
>Shredder played 21.Nf5! here with a rather convincing score of +2.47. Finding
>the move after just 2 seconds (!).
>
>Any other engine going for this sacrifice?

Junior 9 find it in just over 1 min on my 2.66 GHz P4.

1.Nc2 b6 2.Bf3 Be6 3.Qd3 Rab8 4.Nd5 Qd8 5.Bf2 Nxd5 6.cxd5 Bc8
  ±  (0.91)   Depth: 17   00:00:47  61387kN
1.Nf5!
  ±  (1.12)   Depth: 17   00:01:05  85553kN
1.Nf5!
  +-  (1.42)   Depth: 18   00:01:40  125574kN
1.Nf5 gxf5 2.gxf5 Kh8 3.b6 Na6 4.Rdg1 Rg8 5.Nd5 Qd8 6.Bh5 Nh6 7.Qxa5 Bxf5 8.exf5
Nb4 9.Qb5 Nxd5 10.cxd5
  ±  (1.29)   Depth: 19   00:03:19  231471kN

(Maughan, Paoli 25.03.2005)

This is not positional sac (NT) Evgeny Shu 07:36:16 03/25/05
- Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Terry McCracken 14:31:57 03/25/05
  - Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Steve Maughan 14:44:02 03/25/05
    - Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Terry McCracken 14:50:23 03/25/05
      - Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Steve Maughan 19:57:08 03/25/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Claude Le Page 16:12:21 03/26/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Terry McCracken 22:37:28 03/25/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Steve Maughan 05:05:18 03/26/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Terry McCracken 10:48:45 03/26/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Steve Maughan 13:08:12 03/26/05
        
        Here are a Couple of Lines Terry McCracken 00:06:51 03/27/05
        
        Re: Here are a Couple of Lines Steve Maughan 18:19:56 03/27/05
        
        Your Welcome. Terry McCracken 18:43:22 03/27/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Terry McCracken 14:04:11 03/26/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice chandler yergin 07:08:00 03/27/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Terry McCracken 11:13:44 03/27/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice chandler yergin 20:22:34 03/28/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Steve Maughan 15:54:05 03/26/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Terry McCracken 16:14:52 03/26/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Steve Maughan 16:38:22 03/26/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Terry McCracken 16:45:55 03/26/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Steve Maughan 17:53:13 03/26/05
        
        Give it a Rest Terry McCracken 18:06:49 03/26/05
      - Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Terry McCracken 14:53:54 03/25/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice George Tsavdaris 15:07:31 03/25/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Terry McCracken 15:23:34 03/25/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Steve Maughan 20:00:35 03/25/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Terry McCracken 22:46:50 03/25/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Steve Maughan 05:26:51 03/26/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Terry McCracken 11:05:44 03/26/05
        
        Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice Steve Maughan 04:17:18 03/26/05
- Re: This is not positional sac (NT) Terry McCracken 14:29:58 03/25/05
- Re: This is not positional sac George Tsavdaris 13:24:21 03/25/05
- Re: This is not positional sac (NT) Marcus Prewarski 08:53:26 03/25/05
- Re: This is not positional sac (NT) Steve Maughan 08:18:06 03/25/05
  - It does look like a positional sac Evgeny Shu 15:13:33 03/25/05
    - Re: It does look like a positional sac Steve Maughan 20:04:24 03/25/05
      - Re: It does look like a positional sac Terry McCracken 22:53:44 03/25/05
        
        Re: It does look like a positional sac Robin Smith 12:51:13 03/26/05
        
        Re: It does look like a positional sac Terry McCracken 14:06:30 03/26/05

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