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Subject: Re: Kramer Vs Kramer (Yace + Book against Yace + No Book = 13.5 - 6.5)

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 02:23:40 09/01/02

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On August 31, 2002 at 10:03:46, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 31, 2002 at 08:12:57, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>
>>On August 31, 2002 at 05:42:58, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>If I prepare for an important championship(something that I do not prepare at
>>>this moment) I may choose a move like 1.d3 or 1.c3 or something similiar.
>>>
>>>I may also have few lines after that move in my book.
>>>I do not expect the commercial opponents to have a killer line against it
>>>espacially when they cannot know what is my choice for the first move and they
>>>need to prepare a lot of killer lines in order to get a winning position out of
>>>book.
>>
>>It's probably a bit naive to think that the commercial book authors aren't aware
>>of these kind of tricks. The average commercial book seems prepared for quite a
>>few odd variations. Whether they contain killer moves or are close to ensuring a
>>winning position out of book is hard to tell from a superficial examination.
>>Probably not, but enough for an advantage IMO. And I suspect that a championship
>>book is even better.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Mogens
>
>There are a lot of possibilities after 1.d3 or other lines
>and I believe that they cannot be prpared for everything.
>
>Almost nobody tried these lines against them so they
>do not waste a lot of time in preparing book lines against
>these options.
>
>I can use the commercial book to prepare lines that at
>least get them out of the commercial book.
>
>The secret book may be better but still
>I can look at datbase of games and prepare lines that
>get them even out of the secret book.
>
>White has a lot of options to get equality without
>playing something that was played in the past and I believe that some
>days of preperation may be enough to get equality with white
>and slightly inferior position with black so if my program is
>at the same level of the commercial programs I can expect
>50% with white and 40% with black.


>I do not believe that they use weeks
>to prepare lines to get advantage against
>1.a3,1.b3 1.c3 1.d3 1.e4 e5 2.Be2,... because it means that
>they have no time to prepare against the main lines.
>
>Uri

Still this works only when you are white, where you can get away with unusual
lines. When you are black, i expect non-book moves to lead to a clear
disadvanatage..most of the time



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