Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:21:07 07/16/02
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On July 16, 2002 at 06:06:20, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On July 16, 2002 at 05:55:37, Uri Blass wrote: > >>I suspect that having a special book against the commercial programs with the >>white pieces that includes lines like 1.c3 could be better because you can get >>equallity out of book and avoid prepared traps. >> >>1.c3 is only one example and there are a lot of possible moves that you can >>start with white and the opponents cannot know what you prepared to prepare >>killing lines. >> >>The commercial programs may have a reply to 1.c3 in book but if you prepare >>manually some lines after 1.c3 you can be practically sure that you can throw >>them out of book with equallity. > >I'm not convinced this is as easy. Kure actually has a lot of moves >in book after c3. > >And even then, you're only going to get equality with white, and a >disadvantage with black. You're already at a disadvantage compared >to someone using a book. And you can't steer what you get as well. There will be no free lunch against a commercial book where they have spent literally thousands of hours adding information. I also think that the days of strange moves like a3 throwing a program out of book are numbered.
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