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Subject: Re: Great rook sac

Author: allan johnson

Date: 01:07:51 01/30/00

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On January 30, 2000 at 04:05:13, allan johnson wrote:

>How many programmes out there can find the wonderful rook sac in the position
>below? Neither Rebel Century nor Fritz 5.32 got close within 10 minutes on
>a Celeron 433 128 mb ram.It comes from a  game between G Sax  and J Kestler
>Nice 1974.
>  [D]r1b1k3/2q1ppb1/2p2n2/3p1PBB/2nP3P/Pp5N/1P2Q1P1/2KR3R b--
> If someone thinks the sac is suss please let me know.
>1... Rxa3 2pxa3 Qa5 3Rd3 Qxa3ch 4Kb1 Bxf5. At this point both Rebel and Fritz
>were acknowledging white's position is lost.
>I'm not sure of Kestler's rating but I thing this position highlights
>that tactically computers have still got a way to go.What do others think?
>Regards Allan
>P.S Apologies if the diagram doesn't happen.
Trying again

• Re: Great rook sac Jeremiah Penery 13:25:43 01/30/00
• Re: Great rook sac David Blackman 03:50:55 01/30/00
  • Re: Great rook sac blass uri 06:23:30 01/30/00
  • Re: Great rook sac Howard Exner 04:08:34 01/30/00
  • Re: Great rook sac Ed Schröder 03:55:25 01/30/00
    • Re: Great rook sac Vincent Lejeune 16:53:23 01/31/00

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