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Subject: Re: Hard Test Position

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 15:26:41 11/14/05

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On November 11, 2005 at 03:36:03, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>On November 11, 2005 at 02:39:30, Jake Sisko wrote:
>
>>[d]4rrk1/pp4bp/n1p1p1p1/q3P1Q1/3P4/PBN2P2/1PP5/2KR3R w - - 0 20
>
>This is not a hard test position, not even a good one.
>It is simply a won position.
>White wins by human moves like
>1.Ne4
>1.Qh4
>1.Rdg1
>However 1.Rxh7 seams to be the best move.
>kind regards
>Bernhard

Wow! Rxh7 DOES look (to the human chess eye), to stand to good reason, if you
just see the placement of things.
Just by looking at the placement of things, without much depth of plies, one can
see that white probably has a sound winning combination which is indefensible.
The Black Queen can come back in one move, but that is probably not enough.
So the Black position is proibably a losing one even withOUT Rxh7 by white. I
personally would spend as much time as possible in a game, thinking of Rxh7,
rather than imagining I might have some "safer" alternatives, if in time
pressure.
S.Taylor



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