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Subject: Re: Cute shot from Shredder-Nimzo, Paderborn Rd. 3

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 20:01:00 02/10/00

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On February 10, 2000 at 19:54:01, Peter Kappler wrote:

>
>Nimzo played 17...g5, leading to this position:
>
>[D]r1br2k1/ppp2q1p/nb3p2/6p1/2PN1B2/2P2B2/P1Q2PPP/3RR1K1 w - -
>
>And now Shredder played the pretty 18. Nc6!!
>
>How long for your program to find this move?  And what about an improvement for
>Black?  Even if 17...g5 hadn't failed tactically, it looks like a big positional
>error.

LambChop likes Nc6 at depth 10, which unfortunately takes about 15min to search
on a PII 366.  Score is only +.63, Nf5 was +.7 at ply 9.

>
>Perhaps Black does better to play 17...c6?  What do others think?
>
>--Peter



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