Author: J. Wesley Cleveland
Date: 13:46:57 06/26/02
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On June 25, 2002 at 20:23:31, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. I looked it up at chesslab and found 27 games: White wins: 14 Black wins: 8 Draw: 5
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