Author: Terry Ripple
Date: 10:00:41 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
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At one time the Center Counter was considered weak until Grandmaster Huebner won
with it some years ago and then it became fashionable to play. I play with it
quite often and win many more games than i lose with it. My friend who has a
Master rating of 2345 said that most openings are good enough to use as long as
you know it well and understand it's principles and be familiar with the middle
game positions that come from it!
My friend plays the Latvian Gambit and kicks the butts of many Master players.
This opening does not have a very good reputation but he knows it very well and
thus can win games with it. Another Master player from our club who's rating is
in the 2300's is very strong in his openings and he made a comment to my other
friend who as i said is rated 2345, that the Latvian Gambit is no good! Well, he
challenged him and beat him with the Latvian Gambit more than once and so now
the other Master won't allow him to play the Latvian Gambit against him! I
thought this to be most interesting!
Regards,
Terry
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