Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:06:56 11/07/05
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On November 07, 2005 at 17:05:47, Paul Jacobean Sacral wrote: >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 I disagree Even without Rxh5 I do not see how black can free the rook after a move like Rb2. strength of chess engines has nothing to do with beauty. chess beauty is clearly irrelevant in evaluating chess engines. Uri
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