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Subject: Re: How long does your program take to avoid Qxc2

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 15:25:13 04/01/00

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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.
>
>r3kb1r/2q2ppp/p2p4/1p1PpP2/8/4Q3/PPP1N1PP/R4RK1 b kq - 0 17


Chess Tiger 12.1 throws Qxc2 away and plays Be7 (score +0.01) in 13.73 seconds,
on my K6-2 400MHz, 8Mb hash tables.



    Christophe



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