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Subject: Re: To build a book or not?

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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