Author: martin fierz
Date: 18:26:12 10/07/02
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On October 06, 2002 at 18:19:36, Janosch Zwerensky wrote: >>And very likely >>Kramnik had already seen Fritz' dubious moves 12...Bf8 > >Everyone seems to say that that one was bad, and I won't argue that this move >does not *look* ugly, but is there a good argument in favor of the hypothesis >that the game would not have transposed into the text line anyway by 15. f3 Bd6 >had the Bishop been placed on e7? > >Regards, >Janosch it doesnt matter whether it transposes or not. perhaps you are right and there is no improvement for black if it had played Be7 (hard to believe though! Bf8 just loses a tempo compared to Be7 in all other variations). but whether or not there is an improvement, Bf8 severly limits black's options, and is therefore worse than Be7. you say: why bother, if it does transpose? the answer is that after Be7 kramnik has to calculate more variations than after Bf8, everything with O-O for black. so even if the game ended up the same, you would have been forcing kramnik to think more. aloha martin
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