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Subject: Re: Human brilliancy

Author: John Merlino

Date: 22:54:42 07/27/05

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On July 27, 2005 at 23:24:14, Eberhard wrote:

>This game was played 150 ago by Paul Morphy. His games laid the foundation for
>modern chess theory.
>
>[Date "1858"]
>[White "Morphy, P."]
>[Black "Count Isouard"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>
>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Bg4 4. dxe5 Bxf3 5.Qxf3 dxe5 6. Bc4 Nf6 7. Qb3 Qe7
>
>[d] rn2kb1r/ppp1qppp/5n2/4p3/2B1P3/1Q6/PPP2PPP/RNB1K2R w KQkq - 0 8
>
>8. Nc3!
>
>Development, not material!
>
>8...c6 9. Bg5 b5? 10. Nxb5 cxb5 11. Bxb5+ Nbd7 12. O-O-O! Rd8 13. Rxd7 Rxd7 14.
>Rd1 Qe6 15. Bxd7+ Nxd7 16. Qb8+ Nxb8 17. Rd8# 1-0

Posting interesting games/moves is fine, if you want to call them an engine
test. And 8.Nc3 might be an interesting test, although most engines will happily
play Bxf7+ and win material (and the game).

But please give annotation credit where it is due. Your "Development, not
material!" is straight from Chessmaster.

jm



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