Author: Aloisio Ponti Lopes
Date: 20:07:38 01/29/00
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On January 29, 2000 at 00:31:56, Howard Exner wrote: > 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. Yes, you're right. That ...a6 by black seems to be a mistake. I just reviewed some games with the same opening, white will most of the time trade the bishop for the knight on c6, so ...a6 seems to be just a loss of tempo. See for example Fischer-Mecking, 1970 (Palma de Majorca), and many others, and you'll get the strategic ideas behind this opening. >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. Well, I think that's the kind of line a GM handles much better than *any* computer software nowadays. It seems to me that Soffer had tryed it before the game against Fritz... couldn't it be possible? Just imagine how many bad opening lines there are in the books the programs use, and you'll understand the advantage of the professional players... Well, fortunately for the programmers, that's not too hard to improve... A. Ponti
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