Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 14:50:23 03/25/05
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On March 25, 2005 at 17:44:02, Steve Maughan wrote: >Terry, > >>Shredder saw this move earlier, and played quickly. It's not a positinal >>sacrifice. > >Paste the EPD into Shredder 9 and it will find Nf5 after only a couple of >seconds i.e. it sees this move quickly without using previous search knowledge. > >How do you define a "Tactical Sacrifice" and a "Positional Sacrifice"? > >Steve A tactical sacrifice leads to a gain in material and Nf5 does....a positional sacrifice gives compensation for material, space and mobility, which will eventually lead to material returned, etc. Terry
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