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Subject: Re: The Belgrad Gambit

Author: Jon Dart

Date: 07:04:02 06/12/00

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Arasan doesn't play most of the offbeat gambits.

It is also interesting to me that, in the 2500 or so games my program has
played online, I don't see human players trying these very often
either. I've seen no Latvians, a couple of Elephant Gambits, one
Halloween Attack (by another program, which lost), a couple of
Belgrades, and 4 Blackmar-Diemer Gambits. I have to conclude that
either most humans don't know these, don't think they're good,
or are afraid to venture them against computers. Certainly the
success rate of these openings doesn't look good in the computer
games I have seen.

I do see quite a bit more of more mainstream things like the
King's Gambit, Slav Botvinnik Gambit, etc.

--Jon



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