Author: Charles Milton Ling
Date: 14:47:06 03/10/99
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I had the opportunity to briefly discuss this beautiful move with Shirov on ICC. I had read in "Schach" that Be4 would also win. Shirov said, "Yes, in some 40 moves.". On March 10, 1999 at 02:33:14, Peter Kappler wrote: > >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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