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Subject: The concept of a "suicide" move.

Author: A. Steen

Date: 07:07:32 12/30/05

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On December 30, 2005 at 09:54:15, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>The prophetic Chris Whittington.  I must say that I am impressed by the
>coincidences(?)...
>
>Thanks again for reminding me of that New Paradigm charter by Chris W.

If you are at all impressed by such ambiguously-phrased prophesies, then you
must find the sage Nostradamus utterly compelling.  :-)

The author of that piece showed little appreciation of the history of warfare,
IMO.  Strategy, even that part of it dealing with "coincidences", was worked out
by Assyrian generals at Sennacherib long before Erwin was even a glimmer or
glistening in the loins of his forefathers.

To keep this message on-charter, look at:
http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?475342
[d] r7/1pk5/2pN4/4P3/5P2/p7/2N3KP/8 w - - 0 45
where 45. h3 is apparently described as "suicide".

While I confess it is a somewhat piquant move, do you agree it is "suicide"?

A move is called "suicide" if there is at least one clearly better move that is
either reasonably liable to improve the outcome (loss to draw or win, or draw to
win) or very significantly delay a bad outcome.

I don't see that h3 qualifies on either count.

45. f5 a2 is just as "busted".



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