Author: Mikael Bäckman
Date: 05:10:10 01/20/03
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On January 20, 2003 at 02:59:44, Scott Gasch wrote: >Round 1 monsoon had white against Hossa and played it's favorite tournament >opening for white, the Ruy. ECO called it the Ruy: classical defense, Benelux >variation. Monsoon was out of book, though, at move 8 though and proceeded to >make two mistakes in the forms of bishop for knight trades. Normally reluctant >to do this, I can see the engine's reasoning in both cases -- 9. Bxf6 opens >black's king fortress while 12. Bxc6 gives black a damaged pawn structure. The >position after the recapture is: > >[D]r1bq1rk1/p1p2p2/1bpp3p/4P3/8/5N2/PP3PPP/RN1Q1RK1 w - - 0 13 > >Monsoon likes white here because of the open black king, black pawn defects etc. > However I was very worried at this point about the two black bishops on what is >looking like it will be a very open board and wondering how monsoon can manage >to trade one off. Black will also get a passer on d no matter how you slice it. > I think black may be better here despite the king position. Yace, crafty and >warp favor white still but not nearly as much as monsoon did. Have you tried running the critical positions 1-2 ply deeper than you got in the tournament. Does monsoon make the same moves? Perhaps it does better at longer time controls. /Mikael
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