Author: martin fierz
Date: 17:18:37 10/04/02
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On October 04, 2002 at 16:03:24, K. Burcham wrote: what a bunch of strange ideas :-) >If the Berlin Defense draws for black, when both sides play flawless, then why >is this opening in DF7 book for such important game? every sound opening draws for black when both sides play flawlessly! >Why doesnt DF7 book play a variation that favours white? this opening does favor white, only kramnik is the guy who resurrected this whole variation from obscurity and has played it a lot with very good results. if anybody knows anything about this position, it's kramnik. >who is author of DF7 book? kure, i guess, since there's a picture of kure,morsch and feist with the legend: the authors of fritz here http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=535 i don't know anything about him as a chessplayer though, i don't know if he is the guy who chooses which openings to play, or whether they have an additional strong player giving hints. >here are two previously played games with white winning with Berlin Defense >after 9...h6. white wins from this position. as kurt already said, kramnik would not play the same game again of course. and in fact, somebody tried to repeat this line against him one month after his loss to kasparov: [Event "Mainz CC Champions Duel"] [Site "Mainz"] [Date "2001.06.26"] [Round "3"] [White "Anand,Viswanathan"] [Black "Kramnik,Vladimir"] [Result "0-1"] [Eco "C67"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Nxe4 5.d4 Nd6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.dxe5 Nf5 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 9.Nc3 h6 10.h3 Bd7 11.b3 Kc8 12.Bb2 b6 13.Rad1 Ne7 14.Rd2 c5 15.Rfd1 Be6 16.Ne2 g5 17.h4 g4 18.Nh2 h5 19.Rd8+ Kb7 20.Rxa8 Kxa8 21.Rd8+ Kb7 22.Nf4 Ng6 23.g3 c4 24.bxc4 Nxf4 25.gxf4 g3 26.Nf1 gxf2+ 27.Kh2 Bxc4 0-1 aloha martin
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