Author: Brian Kostick
Date: 12:20:00 03/12/01
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On March 12, 2001 at 12:32:29, John Merlino wrote: >On March 12, 2001 at 00:08:28, Daniel Chancey wrote: > >>Capablanca-Alekhine Capa played 1.f4 Alekhine responded 1...e5 That is >>insane! >> >>The next version of the CM AVRO tournament will use modified CM books so that >>the opening moves make more sense. >> >>Castle2000 > >Why is this "insane"? It's called From's Gambit to Bird's Opening. After > >1.f4 e5 >2.fxe5 d6 >3.exd6 Bxd6 >4.Nf3 Nf6 > >it is certainly not losing for Black. Out of 21 games in the CM database, it's >+10 =4 -7. There's even a game where an IM beat a GM with it (Malaniuk v >Dyachkov -- Maikop, June 1998). > >If you can find a game where Alekhine played Black against 1.f4, let me know, >because there aren't any that I can find. > >jm I think Daniel intended to point out 1.f4 as a rather rare opening move for Capablanca. My unscientific look showed 13/654 or about 2% chance. 1.f4 is weighted the same as 1.c4 in this book, so I see we are compromising at best. Also I think 1.b4 in CapablancaJR.obk is not worthy of weight. I only found 2 of these games out of the 654. Regards, Brian K. Where I looked: http://www.chesslab.com/PositionSearch.html
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