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Subject: Linares '98 Topalov-Shirov ...Bh3!!

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 23:33:14 03/09/99



8/8/4kpp1/3p1b2/p6P/2B5/6P1/6K1 b - - bm Bh3; id "Topalov-Shirov Linares 98";


Does everybody remember this game?  It's from last year's Linares tournament,
where Shirov played a shocking bishop sacrifice in the endgame and won
brilliantly.  I believe that post-mortem analysis proved it was the only way to
win.  (Please correct me if this is wrong)

I watched this game live on ICC with dozens of others, and we were all quite
impressed with Shirov's powers of calculation.

This *should* be an extremely difficult problem for computers - but I'm sure
somebody will tell me that Hiarcs or some other commercial program can solve it
in 10 seconds.

Just curious...

--Peter








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