Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 15:12:12 06/25/02
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On June 25, 2002 at 17:10:05, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 24, 2002 at 19:09:05, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On June 23, 2002 at 02:06:25, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>i do not know in which world you live if you guess you >>can score points with black after 1.e4,f5. This is complete >>nonsense of course. Also the idea you would get a draw with 1.d3,e5 with >>white is complete nonsense of course. Instead of advantage you have >>disadvadvantage soon. with 1.e4,f5 you score 0% of course with black. >> > > >I don't agree here. I will be happy to search thru my game archive to find >games Crafty has won vs other computers with the Latvian black side. It isn't >a horrible opening to play against a materialistic computer. The best lines for >white give the pawn back at the right time. Computers generally won't. Would >it win more than it loses with that opening? Unknown. But it definitely >would not lose every game. We could run a 10 game match on ICC to see, as my >book learning would provide the variety within the various Latvian lines... > You would never get into Latvian (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5) here since white play 2.exf5 and you can't get in e5 without fxe6. But I guess if black study this he could manage something. I found even a name for it, Fred. If both side is out of book here I would guess it should be near 100% score for white if the strength between the players isn't too big. Odd Gunnar
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