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Subject: Re: Guys it is a Tactical Sacrifice

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 14:53:54 03/25/05

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On March 25, 2005 at 17:50:23, Terry McCracken wrote:

>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

If S9 does this in 2 seconds with out seeing a return in material, then it may
be a considered a blunder. The difference is this "blunder" wins!:)



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