Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:04:00 11/29/99
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On November 29, 1999 at 21:42:00, Paulo Soares wrote: >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 You should try some of Dave Kittinger's programs then. His old "Super Constellation" was a 100 dollar machine back in the early 80's and it would play this kind of sacrifice in a heartbeat... :)
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