Author: Paulo Soares
Date: 18:42:00 11/29/99
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On November 29, 1999 at 15:11:39, Robert Hyatt wrote: >This looks _incredibly_ dangerous. For every position where Bxh6 works, >there are 10 positions where Bxh6 loses. Here a piece for two pawns looks >awful if the other pieces can't get over to help out... Speculative play is >nice, as in the old days of the Novag gadgets from Kittinger, and in the current >play of CSTal... but it can backfire big-time as well... > >Crafty doesn't like the sac, unless it sees actual material coming back, because >I have spent a lot of time teaching it which types of material imbalance are >bad and which types are good. A piece for 2 pawns is always bad unless there >is some tactical conclusion at the end. And given the above PV there obviously >isn't anything except a somewhat naked king position for black... I agreed that the sacrifice was valid because I analyzed the position with more depth, with the help of Hiarcs7.32. But I understand that the programmers should be cautious with that position type. I, personally, like this type of sacrifice, but I am not a programmer. Paulo
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