How far do they see ahead ? (Problems)

by malcolm, Friday, December 22, 2006, 20:08 (6692 days ago) @ Tony Kosten

? it won't take you long to convince yourself that it is winning.
It takes me a very long time to convince myself! For instance one line of my analysis runs Ng6+ fxg6 hxg6 h6 Nd5 Nxd5 Bxh6 gxh6 Rxh6+ Kg8, and now I think I'm 3 pieces down, 5 moves deep into the analysis, and he is going to play Nf6 next and how do I win. and then my brain gets tired, and I forget the position, and I have to go back to the start mentally moving the pieces in my head to get back to the position again. Of course when I set the position up on the board, I notice that if I play Qh4, then Nf6 takes away an escape square for the king, so there is a mate - but I can't see that in advance - and its only one line of analysis that is not even forced. I would probably loose on time if this position occured in a game!