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Subject: Re: Are any programs going to play at the National Open?

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 04:06:23 03/14/99

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On March 14, 1999 at 02:05:59, Oliver Y. wrote:

>On March 13, 1999 at 21:19:29, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>On March 13, 1999 at 21:08:42, Marc Plum wrote:
>>
>>>(snip)

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>I beat Taimanov in an untimed simul where I had Q vs R, and he had about 5
>opponents left at that time, in 1987 when my rating was about 1987.
>
>I had never practiced that ending before, and I didn't seem to have too much of
>a problem with it.  He didn't blunder, by the way.
>
>Funny thing though, we were out of ECO after 4 moves!

Can You post the game or at least the ending.  With tabelbases it would be easy
to find out how well Taimanov played the ending.  I believe it would be very
telling about how well he "understood" it.  If for instance you entered the
ending at a point where you were already past the "Wall" around move 18 then it
would not have been that hard.  But if you were say around 25 moves to
conversion then that's different.
Jim Walker



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