Mephisto,thanks for an excellent analysis.
Computer chess. Was 34. Rxe4 necessary?
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Mephisto saw it very well, 34. Rxe4 was the best line.
Mastafade wrote:
Next time, you could maybe put all the variations into a single game window, as to not drag on your post, just a thought.
Thanks, I'll do that next time, I hadn't thought of it.
This is a game played by GNU Chess against himself. Anyway, I was shocked to see white sacrificing a rook in 34. Rxe4, even if white captures the black bishop in the next move. Any possible reason I might be missing or was it probably because of the limitations of the software, meaning that it considered not so bad exchanging a rook for a pawn+bishop? The game continued a few moves after 65...d4 and black won by checkmate.