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Subject: Re: Nimzo's self immolation

Author: blass uri

Date: 05:03:42 02/05/00

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On February 05, 2000 at 06:52:03, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>I resumed the game manually and Nimzo blundered the game away in a few moves.
>65.Ra6 loses the rook and is a move that I can't reproduce in analysis mode, but
>Nimzo played it and gave up the game. Strange.
>
>63... Nd3+ {0}
>
>[D]8/3k4/6R1/4r3/4nK2/2Pn4/1P6/8 w - - 0 1
>
>64. Ke3 {-2.10/12 32} 64... Nxb2 {319} 65. Ra6 {
>-3.20/11 56} 65... Nc5+ {78} 66. Kf3 {-17.89/17 1} 66... Nxa6 {161} 67. Kf4 {
>-21.46/15 0} 0-1
>
>Enrique

I do not understand how black can win the rook after 66.Kd4

I guess that 66....Nxa6 is winning in this case but I am not sure if it wins by
the 50 moves rule.

Uri



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