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

Author: Mridul Muralidharan

Date: 07:08:05 11/08/05

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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

Good points - especially relevnt for people who want to enjoy chess and maybe
also improve their (or their programs) games.
It is very satisfying to win with a spectacular move : be it human or a computer
:)

If my engine played Rxh5! after seeing the 'why' behind it , I will be much more
happier than if it goes on to win with Rb2.

Thanks for the position.

- Mridul



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