Author: Wolfgang Zugrav
Date: 12:52:04 08/24/00
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On August 24, 2000 at 15:42:25, Harald Faber wrote: >On August 24, 2000 at 15:34:58, Wolfgang Zugrav wrote: > >>On August 24, 2000 at 15:15:00, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On August 24, 2000 at 15:05:23, Shay Bushinsky wrote: >>> >>>>The game just ended - Nimzo broke Junior's defense with a strong Exchange sac >>>>and went on to win - last moves will be posted on kasparov.com soon a huge >>>>crowd blocked a little kid's way to continue relay the game and the end result >>>>is of course disappointing to us :( >>> >>>I think that 65.Ra3 was wrong. >>>The white king could stay at d5 with a draw if you do not let the kinght to go >>>to e2,f4. >>> >>>Previous versions of Junior have no problem to find the better 65.Rb2 >>> >>>Uri >> >>Shay, >>disappointing for you - lucky for us. >> >>However, to be fair - Junior could have played more interestingly instead of >>72.Rxb5 the following (which is far away to calculate, and may not be correct): >> >>72.Ra8! b4 73.Rg8 Kc6 74.Rxg7 Kxb6 75.Rb1 (to avoid check on c3) Rc3+ 76.Kf2 b3 >>77.Rh7 Kc6 78.Rxh6 b2 79.Rxf6 Rc1 80.Rxb2 Nd3+ 81.Kg2 Nxb2 82.h6! Rc2+ 83.Kg3 >>Rc1 84.h7 Rh1 85.Rf7 Nc4 86.g5 e4 87.Re7 Ne5 (e3 looses) 88.Kf2 Rh5 89.Ke3 with >>good practical chances to win. >> >>Wolfgang > > >What happened to Nimzo in round 2 when Nimzo played 75...Ra2?? >At the moment I try this position with Nimzo 7.32+TBs on my old K6-200 and the >eval drops from +0.02/11/20sec to -3.90/12/1min38 and after 2min20 changes to >Rc7 with increasing eval. Your computer is certainly much faster, I guess at >least 4x, so within few seconds Nimzo should have found that Ra2 loses. What >happened? I have no clue - as we are not in Contact with London! just guessing like all others do...maybe time trouble or trying to avoid draw?! But at the end of the day, we have to say Fritz had a Queen and an advanced free pawn - and we had only rook and knight. So what would you expect in a practical human game? Difficult for the party who has only the rook & knight. White was better! Wolfgang
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