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Subject: Re: WMCCC Round 8: UPDATE1

Author: Jeroen Noomen

Date: 06:49:14 08/23/01

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On August 23, 2001 at 05:54:17, Vine Smith wrote:

Perhaps in GM chess this position is quite OK for Black.
But both Rebel and Junior saw white clearly better after
17 Qf4. And that is the point: How does the program react?
If theory says '=', but it reacts badly, it is not a good
line to play!

This is the most difficult thing in making a good book for
a computer program: Human chess is not the same as computer
chess....

Jeroen




>The position after Rebel's 16...f5 is evaluated as equal by both Nunn's Chess
>Openings and ECO (which awards an exclamation mark to this move). Junior's
>17.Qf4 appears to be a novelty, and it is unclear (to me, at least) that this
>represents an improvement over 17.exf6, as played in Akopian - Almasi, Ljubljana
>1995.
>
>Thanks for your updates!
>
>Regards,
>Vine Smith



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