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Subject: Re: where are the difficult test positions ? please no positions that we

Author: Paul Jacobean Sacral

Date: 14:05:47 11/07/05

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On November 07, 2005 at 16:29:44, Uri Blass wrote:

>I do not know which move is best and it is possible that tablebases may prove
>that not taking the knight may lead to a shorter mate.

After Rxh5 gxh5, we have 15 pieces on the board and I guess we will not see a
tablebase analysis for this as long as we are alive.

When Kozirev played 28.Rxh5!!, he saw that he will win knight and rook (a3) for
his rook, and black will have no officers at all while white has one rook and
wins easily. This is the point. If you cannot accept that this is an outstanding
example of chess beauty, you probably should quit chess at all. Statistics about
1-0 and 0-1 are not chess, moves like Rxh5!! are chess. A good engine may not
find Rxh5 but still win, but the excellent engine will find Rxh5 and win
brilliantly!

Yours truly Paul J. Sacral



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