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Subject: Re: 10. .. Qc8! a strong novelty?

Author: Tim Mirabile

Date: 04:09:53 07/24/98

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I have two games with 10...Qc8, both went 11.d5 and white won quickly, but I
have to assume Anand would have made a stronger followup with black.

[Event "Tr.Lombardia serie A"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1990.??.??"]
[Round "09"]
[White "Contini,Luca"]
[Black "Bresciani,Nicola"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E12"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. a3 Bb7 5. Nc3 d5 6. cxd5 Nxd5 7. Qc2 c5 8. e4
Nxc3 9. bxc3 Nd7 10. Bf4 Qc8 11. d5 exd5 12. exd5 Be7 13. d6 Bf6 14. Qe2+ Kf8
15. 0-0-0 h6 16. Ne5 g6 17. Ng4 Qd8 18. Nxf6 Qxf6 19. Qe7+ Qxe7 20. dxe7+ Kxe7
21. Bb5 Nf6 22. Bd6+ Ke6 23. Rhe1+ 1-0

[Event "we cup"]
[Site "cr"]
[Date "1989.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Pyrich"]
[Black "Pampa"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E12"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. a3 Bb7 5. Nc3 d5 6. cxd5 Nxd5 7. Qc2 c5 8. e4
Nxc3 9. bxc3 Nd7 10. Bf4 Qc8 11. d5 exd5 12. exd5 Bxd5 13. 0-0-0 Qb7 14. Bb5
0-0-0 15. Rxd5 1-0


On July 24, 1998 at 02:02:03, Mark Young wrote:

>On July 24, 1998 at 01:29:39, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>On July 23, 1998 at 20:56:41, Mark Young wrote:
>>>The move 10.. Qc8 is a very strong novelty. I have not found a way to refute
>>>this move. I wonder if GM Anand found this over the board, or it was some kind
>>>of home preparation.
>>
>>The move is NO novelty !
>>CSTal has it in its book, and in my datases i have 3 games that were all won
>>by white. In my reference games 11.d5 was played.
>>If anand would have played against cstal, it would have played d5 out of book.
>
>Is the move some what new. I did not find any games with it. I looked at over
>750,000 games. Could you post the games with this move. Does the games you have
>show whites as being better out of the opening? The move seem to be very strong.
>I wonder why it has not been played more.



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