Author: Uri Blass
Date: 22:12:43 08/24/00
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On August 24, 2000 at 16:42:14, Harald Faber wrote: >On August 24, 2000 at 15:52:04, Wolfgang Zugrav wrote: > > >>>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. > >Oops, the notation I have shows also two connected passed pawns for black on e5 >and f5. >What I wanted to stress is that on my SLOW K6 it takes Nimzo7.32 only 140sec to >change to Rc7, so with an P3-800 or an even faster machine it should take not >more than 30 seconds. Unfortunately the pgn of the games as posted by Amir Ban showed that Nimzo used at most 29 seconds for Ra2(it showed 29 seconds but the pgn is from the point of view of Fritz and it showed times like 21 seconds for 1...c5 and 8 seconds for 2...d6 when it is clear that Nimzo did not use time for these moves) Uri
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