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Subject: Re: ICC Tournament, LambChop vs Nimzo (position)

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 18:37:28 01/29/00

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On January 29, 2000 at 19:50:15, Jon Dart wrote:

>Actually, I was wondering about this position,
>at move 47:
>
>[D]8/k5p1/P4p2/1P1Rbb1P/1r6/5P1P/4BK2/1q4R1 w - - 0 1
>
>chop went for Rxg7+, going for the attack, instead
>of Rxb1. Looks like a mistake but I'm not sure

Rxb1 is just plain lost I think.

>if this was the deciding blunder or something else.
>chop's score was over +2 here if I remember right.

I got lagged out around this time, but that sounds right.
But the +2 was based on faulty analysis by Chop - chop saw it could force its
own queen home but didn't see the mating combination.

What does Arasan say about these 2 positions?

>
>B.t.w. chop is quite strong and was doing well to
>go this far against Nimzo, which was searching
>over 450k nps.
>
>--Jon




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