Author: Peter Berger
Date: 02:42:33 05/12/02
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On May 11, 2002 at 20:55:12, Vine Smith wrote:
>On May 11, 2002 at 17:55:28, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>After some games against H8 and looking what other people here has found in
>>Comp-Comp games, it seems -IT SEEMS- H8 is a sad disapppointment. In my last
>>game against him he even chose, with white, such an inferior openning as
>>Ponziani, slow enough to let black an easy and fast equal game. I wonder if we
>>have here one of these problems, or perhaps several at the same time:
>>A) a book with inferior lines you should not have in any decent book as a
>>"regular" book, but at most as curiosity for an special call.
>>B) a not so good engine, broken somewere
>>C) a bug
>>D) sheer bad luck to he moment
>>
>>But I guess a patch will come soon...
>>fernando
>
>Is the Ponziani really that bad? I play it sometimes myself. Then again, I'm not
>such a good player. But perhaps it was just Hiarcs' particular line in the
>Ponziani which was faulty, which wouldn't surprise me given some of the other
>moves from its opening book that I've seen posted here (I still can't believe
>its 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bc4? -- was it a typo entered into the book by
>accident during a rush to get the product on the market?).
>
>Regards,
>Vine Smith
I kind of like 4. Bc4 but I agree that the Hiarcs book though very interesting
seems to have quite a few holes.
Look at this one:
[Event "60 10"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2002.05.12"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Nimzo 2000b"]
[Black "Hiarcs 8"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C47"]
[Annotator "PIII1200-Athlon1333,Ponder=On"]
[PlyCount "37"]
[TimeControl "3600+10"]
{288MB, Hiarcs8.ctg, PIII1200
} 1. e4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} e5 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 2.
Nf3 {[%emt 0:00:06]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 3. Nc3 {(Lb5) [%emt 0:00:03]} Nf6 {
[%emt 0:00:00]} 4. d4 {[%emt 0:00:04]} exd4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 5. Nd5 {
(Sxd4) [%emt 0:00:03]} Nxe4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 6. Qe2 {[%emt 0:00:04]} f5 {
[%emt 0:00:00]} 7. Ng5 {[%emt 0:00:04]} d3 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 8. cxd3 {
[%emt 0:00:04]} Nd4 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 9. Qh5+ {[%emt 0:00:04]} g6 {
[%emt 0:00:00]} 10. Qh4 {[%emt 0:00:03]} c6 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 11. dxe4 {
[%emt 0:00:04]} cxd5 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 12. exd5 {[%emt 0:00:03]} Nc2+ {
[%emt 0:00:00]} 13. Kd1 {[%emt 0:00:03]} Nxa1 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 14. Qd4 {
[%emt 0:00:03]} Rg8 {[%emt 0:00:00]} 15. d6 {[%emt 0:00:04]} Bxd6 {
[%eval 186,13] [%emt 0:29:41]} 16. Qxd6 {[%emt 0:00:05]} Qe7 {
[%eval 191,12] [%emt 0:01:10]} 17. Qd5 {(Lf4) [%emt 0:00:05]} Rf8 {
[%eval 565,13] [%emt 0:11:30]} 18. Bb5 {[%emt 0:00:38]} Nc2 {
[%eval 562,12] [%emt 0:00:16]} 19. Kxc2 {[%emt 0:00:06]} 1-0
Regards,
Peter
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