22 Jan 04
Between two very strong players, playing a higly sharp opening. If anyone likes to watch a perfectly executed attacking plan, have a look at Game 366839
After analysing it with Chessmaster 9000, even the computer didn't pick up 9. Bxh7!!
Easily one of the best demolitions I have seen in a long long time. Well played Tequila, and tejo... you played well yourself.
22 Jan 04
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How could chessmaster NOT see it???
It's such a well known bishop sacrifice that there is a whole chapter on it in the Art of Attack. It's the classic bishop sacrifice or "greek gift". It's only about 1000 years old.
Even I would immediately see Bxh7+! Is that program running ok??
23 Jan 04
Originally posted by hypermo2001Sure, sacrificing a bishop to penetrate the pawnshield in front of your opponent's king is a classic sacrifice, but it's far from obvious whether a position warrants such a sacrifice of material - it doesn't pay to sacrifice a bishop in such a fashion whenever the opportunity arises. I too would have seen that move, but don't pretend that I could have absolutely proven it's validity by rigorous analysis, so while it is a classic sacrifice, that doesn't detract from the brillance of the move, or the beauty of the attack. A computer, unlike a human player, won't base it's recommendations on "gut feelings" and the sorts of abstract notions about a position like an experienced human player can; it bases it's choices on solid analysis, and if not given enough time to analyze, it may easily miss moves that occur easily to human players, but are laborious and time consuming to "prove".
How could chessmaster NOT see it???
It's such a well known bishop sacrifice that there is a whole chapter on it in the Art of Attack. It's the classic bishop sacrifice or "greek gift". It's only about 1000 years old.
Even I would immediately see Bxh7+! Is that program running ok??
And it seems that the reason Chessmaster didn't find the move was indeed because it wasn't given enough time per move to analyze the game - I just analyzed the game giving 100 seconds per move, and CM9000 agreed with every white's move, including move 9. With black, it agreed on all but one - on move 19 chessmaster suggests Qe8 instead of Qf6 that was played in the game. Also black left the book with 5...e6 - g6 would have been the book move; I think Tequila demonstrated quite well why black might indeed want to move the g pawn on move 5. 🙂
An excelent game in any case, a beautifully executed attack by Tequila! Thanks for sharing that divideby! 🙂