Author: Charles Milton Ling
Date: 14:54:57 03/10/99
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On March 10, 1999 at 17:47:06, Charles Milton Ling wrote: >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.". > I forgot to add that my Fritz 5.32 (on PII/266, 64 MB, of which 40 used for hash tables) did not find Bh3 after 4 hours, then I had enough. Charley >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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