Author: Sergei Smith
Date: 11:04:57 11/08/01
In Reply to: Re: Dilemma after poisened pawn posted by Sergei Smith on November 08, 2001 at 05:35:27: On November 08, 2001 at 05:35:27, Sergei Smith wrote: >On November 07, 2001 at 18:50:31, Tina Long wrote: > >> >>PS: When you have been stating in previous threads that B97 Poisoned Pawn is the >>best opening, were you refering to for White or for Black? > >It is STATISTICALLY the best without any doubt, I'm sorry but I don't understand. Statistically the best for who? I gather you are saying that you have seen stats that one side wins more often with PoisPawn Opening, than other openings, & therefore it is statistically best. I am genuinely interested W or B? >but not necessarily the >strongest opening for either W or B Agreed. There would be no agreement or conclusive decision on "what is the strongest opening", or even "what is the strongest first move" for that matter. >Would you follow through with an opening, if you knew it favors your oponent ? No The Poisoned Pawn (as Black) became very popular in the USA when Bobby Fischer used it often & successfully. This lead to all sorts of analysis of the white side to compete against the popularity of it by Black. I think it became theory that the game was approximatly equal. From my, not intense, interest in it as an opening, I found it nice to keep an eye on it's development when every now & then Kasparov would play it as Black. Particularly when, as in the game I cited above, Kasparov introduced a "brilliant?" theoretical novelty. I am therefore interested (again not intensly) in the Stats of the success level of W B & Draw in this opening, if someone has gone to the effort of compiling those stats. Also interesting, in my opinion, would be date splits in the data 00-1970 (the end of Fischer using it) 1970-1980 (the Post Fischer years) 1980- present (the Modern - Better Books, computer database Years) So, if you, or anybody else here, has compiled those sort of statistics on the B97, I'd love it if you'd share them. Thanks Tina Long A line that is favorable for both sides or that is more likely to be played is statistically better in the sense that a strong line that gives one side a great advantage is unlikely to be played since the opponent will not follow through with it. >Would you follow through with an opening, if you knew it favors your oponent ? No The GUI itself generates the statistics but they may be engine-dependent, though. Chess Tiger, Deep Junior 7, Junior 7, Nimzo 8 seem to be a little less consequent with the statistics than Fritz 7 , Shredder 6.32 and Hiarcs 7.32 that seem to be more accurate. But then again, that may also be due to my personal impression or may be a mere coincidence. The engine may not affect at all how the statistics are displayed in the ChessBase 8 GUI but it will affect the weight/value of analyzed moves.
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