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Subject: Re: A strange coincidence

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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