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Subject: Gentlemen, start your engines

Author: Mike S.

Date: 10:41:43 12/10/00

In her song Express Yourself, Madonna sings "Don't go for second best baby...".
I think the following position, found in the CSS magazine, is a good
illustration of this principle:

[D]3R4/5r1p/5ppk/8/1Q3PPq/5P2/6K1/8 w - - 0 52
52.Rd1 (-h1) wins the queen for the rook, but there is a better move: 52.Rg8!!
Zugzwang! 52...Qh5 [52...f5 53.g5+ Kh5 54.Qd6 threatens # in 3: 55.Qxg6+ hxg6
56.Rh8+; 52...g5 53.Qd6 threatens # in 3: 54.fxg5+ Qxg5 55.Qh2+] 53.gxh5 Rc7
54.Qf8+ Kxh5 55.Qxf6 Rc2+ 56.Kg3 1-0

(from a game Junior 6.0 - Shredder 4.0 Thüringen 2000)

I think there will be a large band width of solving times. In my tests,
surprisingly Doctor? 3.0 was among the best with 5 seconds on a P3/700.

Regards,
M.Scheidl


P.S. The sources:
http://www.computerschach.de/tourn/index.htm (Thüringen, Runde 3)
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.stuart/music/madonna/expressy.html

Re: Gentlemen, start your engines Steve Maughan 05:28:28 12/11/00
Re: Gentlemen, start your engines Dieter Buerssner 12:42:18 12/10/00

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