Author: Tony Werten
Date: 01:22:22 10/18/02
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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. In XiniX, all positions in book are evaluated by the engine. For most engines, attacking a half open line on the oppo king is nice so it looks like a nice move. BTW Ikarus had difficulties drawing the game. Don't know about ParSOS. BTW2 After more (automated) analyses, XiniX plays d4 now so my learning seems to work. See you tomorrow. Tony > >-- >GCP
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