Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:23:31 06/25/02
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On June 25, 2002 at 18:12:12, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >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 You are probably correct. I was really thinking of e4 e5 Nf3 f5 obviously. I don't think the Latvian is particularly good for black, but I used it a lot in human events and the surprise value is very good. White had better know the main lines or he gets into trouble quickly.
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