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Subject: Re: Nimzo-Shredder, should be a draw

Author: Jeroen Noomen

Date: 04:49:32 08/24/00

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On August 24, 2000 at 07:33:37, Jürgen Hartmann wrote:

This should be a draw, although the last moves are hard to understand. Nimzo
should try to make a passed f-pawn, a passed g-pawn or h-pawn is a trivial draw.
So g2-g4? is not the way to do it. f2-f4 seems the right plan to me.

Shredder reacted with ... Kf7?! where g7-g5! looks like a clear draw to me. The
best white can get is a passed g-pawn, but this is not enough. White's rook is
not well placed at a5, but as soon as it leaves this post, Shredder's rook is
getting active.

Still, also after the less convincing moves of both programs, I am sure it will
be a draw.

Jeroen


>Without the a-pawns it looks trivially drawn. The question is here: Can White
>create two weaknesses (e.g. passed pawn on the king-side + attack on the a6
>pawn).
>
>I wonder whether Nimzo has RP-R in his RAM tablebases.



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