Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 03:42:16 01/26/02
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On January 20, 2002 at 20:08:24, Jon Dart wrote: >monsoon played the Benoni, which I think is just bad for Black. But >Arasan chose the Four Pawns defense (A68), which is far from the >best system. 7. Nf3 is better than f4. I think White can also play g3. >Arasan played into the f4 line because there were some draws and >wins with it from the White side in its book database. But I think >15 .. Nb6 may bust this line. After that, Arasan played one move out >of book (16. Qb3) and the next move was failing low. It doubled the >search time but still had a bad position, and it never really >recovered. Which is not to deny that monsoon played well. But I took >the f4 line out of the book since this game. Whoa, hold up. Sure, 15...Nb6 is a good move, but the real problem was 16. Qb3? This is a dynamic position, you can't duck the complications: play 16. e5! e.g. 16...Nc4 17. exf6 Nxe3 18. Rxe3 Rxe3 19. fxg7 Rae8 20. f5! and I think Vaisser gives some further variations, resulting assessment +/=. Note that 20... gxf5? in particular sucks for Black. Banikas-Gallagher, Monaco 2001 was 0-1 after 20...b4 21. axb4 Qxb4 22. fxg6 hxg6 23. Qd2 Qh4 but now instead of 24. Rf1? a6!, White should play 24. Nb5! while he has the chance. White's better here, because he can munch things with the knight while withstanding Black's pressure on the kingside. And even if you just plain don't like 8. Nf3, you can get quite a good game with 8. Bb5+!, the main reason Black players don't play this system to begin with. 7. f4 is the strongest move here, and in short, I don't know why you'd want to take it out of your opening book. Dave
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