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Subject: Re: Additional rules for wmccc

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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