The book suggests that the best continuation for Black is 4...d6 which is what I played in my game. After which, play proceeds as 5.exd6 Bxd6 after which White plays 6.Nf3 in Game 74 and 6.Q4+ in Game 73. In my game, White played the former and play continued thus:
This led to the following position after Black's 19th move:
My position, I thought, was pretty solid but then White made a completely unexpected move, viz. 20.Nd5 cutting off my black-squared Bishop from the support of the Rooks.
I first tried 20...Bxf2+ but that doesn't work out so well. In the end I settled on 20...cxd5 which led to a drawn position although the program didn't concede a draw. Instead it just kept playing. Below is the situation after a seemingly interminable 169 moves, snapped from my perspective playing with the Black pieces (note HGFEDCBA file order from left to right):
I won't put down all the 169 moves but these moves (up to move 53 show where things are headed):
The chess program in OS X has a glitch whereby it crashes whenever I attempt to save the game in PGN format. It would be nice to learn how to embed a game with controls as they do on most of the online chess sites. I must investigate how to do this, otherwise my blog posts are rather limited.
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