Author: John Merlino
Date: 13:22:19 10/17/02
Go up one level in this thread
On October 17, 2002 at 16:01:11, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >[D]r1bqkb1r/1ppp1ppp/p1n5/4p3/B3n3/5N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQR1K1 b kq - 0 6 > >The standard move is d4 here, but my thing wants to play Re1 and >thinks it's quite a bit better. > >My book has nearly no games with this, so I looked in the full >database to see whether this has been played before. It has, >very occasionally. Mostly by lesser players, which isn't exactly >encouraging. However, the last 2 games with this in my database >were: > >PARSOS-IKARUS, WCCC 2002 Maastricht >XINIX-IKARUS, WCCC 2002 Maastricht > >To add to the coincidence, even though Ikarus was involved in >both games, the Re1 move is whites. So this means that both >ParSOS and XiniX chose to play the 'odd' move at the exact >same tournament. > >-- >GCP Here are the results of the position in the CM9000 database: d4 -- +661 =716 -387 -- 57.8% (1764 games) Re1 -- +9 =21 -15 -- 43.3% (45 games) Qe2 -- +1 =2 -5 -- 25.0% (8 games) Bxc6 -- +1 =0 -1 -- 50.0% (2 games) Of the 45 games in which 6.Re1 was played, the average ELO for White was 2335. The average ELO for White in the 1764 games for 6.d4 was 2462. Only two players above 2500 played 6.Re1. Here are the two games: [Event "Lloyds Bank"] [Site "London ENG"] [Date "1991.08.??"] [Round "6"] [White "Kengis, Edvins"] [Black "Morris, Philip"] [TimeControl "-"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C80"] [WhiteELO "2575"] [BlackELO "2385"] [WhiteTitle "IGM"] [BlackTitle "IM"] [WhiteCountry "URS"] [BlackCountry "ENG"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Nxe4 6.Re1 Nc5 7.Nc3 Be7 8.Nd5 O-O 9.Bxc6 dxc6 10.Nxe7+ Qxe7 11.d4 Ne6 12.Rxe5 f6 13.Re1 Bd7 14.c4 Rad8 15.Qb3 Qf7 16.Be3 Rfe8 17.Red1 Bc8 18.Rac1 Nf8 19.Bf4 Ng6 20.Bg3 b6 21.Qa4 Bb7 22.Qc2 Rd7 23.Re1 Rde7 24.Rxe7 Rxe7 25.h4 Nf8 26.b4 c5 27.d5 cxb4 28.Qd2 a5 29.Nd4 Rd7 30.Qf4 Ba6 31.Nf5 Ng6 32.Qg4 Kh8 33.Re1 h6 34.h5 Ne5 35.Bxe5 fxe5 36.Rxe5 b5 37.Qe4 Rd8 38.Nxh6 gxh6 39.Re7 Rf8 40.Rxf7 Rxf7 41.Qe6 1-0 [Event "Interzonal tournament"] [Site "Subotica YUG"] [Date "1987.06.??"] [Round "2"] [White "Popovic, Petar"] [Black "Prasad, Devaki V"] [TimeControl "-"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "C80"] [WhiteELO "2540"] [BlackELO "2425"] [WhiteTitle "IGM"] [WhiteCountry "YUG"] [BlackCountry "IND"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Nxe4 6.Re1 Nc5 7.Bxc6 dxc6 8.Nxe5 Be7 9.b3 O-O 10.Ba3 Ne6 11.Bxe7 Qxe7 12.Nc3 Bd7 13.Re3 Rad8 14.d3 Bc8 15.Qh5 Nf4 16.Qf3 Qg5 17.Qg3 Qxg3 18.hxg3 Nd5 19.Nxd5 cxd5 20.b4 Rfe8 21.Rae1 f6 22.Nf3 Bd7 1/2-1/2 jm
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.