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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