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Subject: Re: computer oppenings

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 20:03:29 07/06/00

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On July 06, 2000 at 19:41:59, Ralf Elvsén wrote:

>On July 06, 2000 at 17:09:41, walter irvin wrote:
>
>> what oppenings are bad for the computer?? what are the best oppenings for
>>computers ??
>>  have computers ever found on there own anything to add to oppening theory????
>
>
>
>Ward - Baburin, Isle of Man open 1997
>
>1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e4 Nc6 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. Bxc4 e6. 6. d5 exd5 7. Bxd5
>
>[D]r2qkbnr/ppp2ppp/2n5/3B4/4P1b1/5N2/PP3PPP/RNBQK2R b KQkq -
>
>From Chris Ward's "The Queens Gambit Accepted" :
>
>7 ... Qf6!
>
>"I guess that this move had previously been rejected for two reasons.
>First, it takes away an obvious square from the g8-knight, while
>castling queenside on the face of it may run into Bg5. It was perhaps
>not unsurprisingly then, that my opponent admitted that 'Fritz' was
>largley responsible for the development of this big opening
>novelty."
>
>It seems to be a clearly better move than e.g. Qd7 . Ward got slighly
>worse and lost a tricky endgame.

Sorry , for asking. But why is 7..Qf6 clearly better? Hope this isn't too
off-topic..



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