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Subject: Re: Nimzo's self immolation

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 05:13:56 02/05/00

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On February 05, 2000 at 08:03:42, blass uri wrote:

>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}
>>
>>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

Nimzo played 66.Kf3, which loses immediately. The whole thing is weird.

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

Shredder announces mate in 20.

Enrique

>Uri



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