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- Kāneʻohe Bay's Fighters Unlimited Boxing Team member Matthew Miller takes a hard hit from Palolo Boxing Club's Aaron Floyd. Miller was K-Bay's champion fighter Saturday during the boxing tournament held at Kahuna's Ballroom, by Megan L. Stiner, November 05, 2004, Striking combination from Wikipedia↩︎
A Combination is a sequence of moves which uses tactical means and exploits specific peculiarities of the position to achieve a certain goal 1 . Combinatorial motives may include tactics like pins, discovered checks and attacks, double attacks, forks and so on. It often starts with a sacrifice or decoy, and leaves the opponent very few forced options to reply.
The search routine of a chess program may take some plies to recognize an initial sacrifice pays off, to distinguish it from a blunder. Extensions are designed to recognize successful combinations earlier, often triggered by forced and often singular replies from the defending side. A so called Petite combination involves only a few moves 2 3 .
See also
Publications
- Jacques Pitrat (1976). Realization of a Program Learning to Find Combinations at Chess. Computer Oriented Learning Processes (ed. J. Simon). Noordhoff, Groningen, The Netherlands.
- Jacques Pitrat (1979). A Program which Uses Plans for Finding Combinations in Chess. ICCA Newsletter, Vol. 2 No. 2
- Jacques Pitrat (1980). The Behaviour of a Chess Combination Program using Plans. Advances in Computer Chess 2
- Kevin Coplan (1982). A Special-Purpose Machine for an Improved Search Algorithm for Deep Chess Combinations. Advances in Computer Chess 3
- Eric Schiller (1995). Big Book of Combinations. Hypermodern Press 4
- Eric Schiller, Raymond Keene, Leonid Shamkovich (2003). Killer Chess Tactics : World Champion Tactics and Combinations. Cardoza
- Azlan Iqbal (2010). Aesthetics in Mate-In-3 Combinations, Part I Combinatorics and Weights. ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3
- Azlan Iqbal (2010). Aesthetics in Mate-In-3 Combinations, Part II Normality. ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 4
Forum Posts
- What is a combination? Define it please! by Don Dailey, CCC, September 06, 1998
- Test the combinational vision of your engine by Uri Blass, CCC, October 15, 2018
External Links
- Combination (chess) from Wikipedia
- Combination (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
- Combo from Wikipedia
- Improve Your Middle Game (Part 2 - Combinations) by Mark Weeks
- The Chris Hinze Combination - Skyrider, from Sister Slick (1974), YouTube Video
feat. John Lee, Gerry Brown, Philip Catherine, Jasper van 't Hof, Rob Van Den Broeck, Jan Huydts, Robert Jan Stips, Henny Vonk
References
Harry Golombek (1977). Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess. Crown Publishing, ISBN 0-517-53146-1, amazon.com↩︎
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