Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 13:28:36 10/17/02
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On October 17, 2002 at 16:01:11, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: the move is not so very good. You get a kind of 'berlin' style position with black still having castling rights. So that's *at least* = for black. So no good. >[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
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