Author: Howard Exner
Date: 21:31:56 01/28/00
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I agree, with that white pawn on e5 and unmovable bishop on d4 black's ability to properly defend is greatly diminished. The board is sliced in half with all white's heavy pieces buzzing around black's king. The play of white in this game is very beautiful. It fits the theme heard many times here of a slow kingside build up being a potent weapon against a computer program. Black has to somehow handle the game differently earlier on to avoid this mess. I'm not familiar with the fine points of this opening but locking up the Queen side pawns probably doesn't fit the required strategy. I don't fault Fritz here as I believe most programs would find this to be a tough position to save. Fritz will no doubt bounce back and inflict some equally harsh damage against its remaining opponents.
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