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Subject: Re: G. Kasparov - V. Topalov; Wijk aan Zee, 1999 impossible Rxd4!!!!

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 05:45:45 07/28/05

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On July 28, 2005 at 07:58:47, Uri Blass wrote:

>On July 28, 2005 at 05:12:16, Vegadapirate wrote:
>
>>Here is one of G.Kasparov's best game of the century, his specially for his 2
>>best tactical moves in the game Rxd4!!! (Maybe - '!!!!!!')
>
>Rxd4 is not winning.
>
>
>  One of the most
>>incredible moves in all of chess.
>
>Not at all after Rxd4 Kb6 white is not better based on kasparov's notes.
>It is certainly a bad test position.

I agree. And solving times <1 seconds are very dubious. I doubt the engines see
the full combination in this time.

Maybe the better test position would be which engines play Kb6 here instead of
cxd4 here:

[D] b2r3r/k4p1p/p2q1np1/NppP4/3R1Q2/P4PPB/1PP4P/1K2R3 b - -

Hiarcs9.6 UCI:

+0.21 12/1 00:11:10 31209466 46539 1... Kb6 2. Nb3 Bxd5 3. Qxd6 Rxd6 4. Rd2 Rhd8
5. Red1 Ne8 6. f4 Bxb3 7. Rxd6 Rxd6 8. Rxd6

regards
Andy



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