Author: John Stanback
Date: 14:09:02 03/31/00
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On March 31, 2000 at 16:23:24, Chessfun wrote: > > >This position came up in my tourney. >Nimzo to play played Qxc2?? and resigned 5 moves later. >How long does your program take to avoid taking the pawn?. > >MCP 8 is in book with 15. either Bc1 or Qc1 since Qc1 leads to >black thinking it is winning seems the best move. This Qc1 should >be in every book as the best move in this variation. > >[D]r3kb1r/2q2ppp/p2p4/1p1PpP2/8/4Q3/PPP1N1PP/R4RK1 b kq - 0 17 > > >Thanks. On a P2-300 Zarkov sees the score for Qxc2 drop after about 12 seconds, but the search goes bananas and it takes over 2 minutes to find Be7. 00:01.0 37760 6> 99 Qxc2 b4 Be7 a3 O-O 00:01.1 42240 6 73 Qxc2 b4 Be7 Nc3 Qb2 Rab1 Qc2 00:01.2 43777 7> 73 Qxc2 b4 Be7 Nc3 Qb2 Rab1 Qc2 00:02.5 87808 7 71 Qxc2 Rac1 Qxb2 Qb6 Rd8 Qc6+ Rd7 Rc2 Qa3 Qc8+ Rd8 00:03.3 117346 8> 71 Qxc2 Rac1 Qxb2 Qb6 Rd8 Qc6+ Rd7 Rc2 Qa3 Qc8+ Rd8 00:09.6 352768 8 70 Qxc2 Rac1 Qxb2 Qb6 Rd8 Qc6+ Rd7 Qc8+ Ke7 Rc2 Qa3 00:10.7 388114 9> 70 Qxc2 Rac1 Qxb2 Qb6 Rd8 Qc6+ Rd7 Qc8+ Ke7 Rc2 Qa3 00:12.3 451072 9 12 Qxc2 Rac1 Qxb2 Qb6 Rd8 Qc6+ Rd7 Qc8+ Ke7 Rc2 Qa3 00:18.0 647680 9 0 Qxc2 Rac1 Qxb2 Qb6 Rd8 Qc6+ Rd7 Qc8+ Ke7 f6+ gxf6 02:08.8 4139264 9 6 Be7 c3 Qc4 Qf3 O-O <HT> 05:44.6 11025969 10> 6 Be7 c3 Qc4 Qf3 O-O <HT> John
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