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Subject: Re: List504 vs Shredder7 (40'/40) 30 games [9.5-20.5]

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 02:26:47 12/31/02

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On December 30, 2002 at 16:11:45, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 30, 2002 at 16:03:27, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>Engine/Engine-Match
>>Dur 1.3/64 MB hash
>>Fritz7-GUI
>>ponder=off
>>kurzbuch.CTG
>>4-men TB's
>>time control 40'/40+40'/40+40
>>tester Kurt Utzinger, Switzerland
>>
>>An unexpected heavy loss of List504 vs Shredder7. Maybe a result of using the so
>>called kurzbuch.cgt (short book with only some moves in each opening). If I find
>>time, I am going to repeat this match with the drawbook.ctg.
>>
>>The games can as usual be downloade under section "Matches" at our homepage
>>"Kurt & Rolf Chess": http://www.beepworld.de/members39/utzinger
>>
>>Kind regards
>>Kurt
>
>This is not so bad relative to this game that was played in Leo's tournament.
>
>I can understand 2...d5 by lack of positional knowledge but
>I do not understand why List gave a pawn in the opening by 3...e4 instead of
>3...Qxd5.
>
>Can List504 play better with no book?
>
>[Event "WBEC4 3rd Div.Gr.B"]
>[Site "DUAL-P3-933"]
>[Date "2002.12.29"]
>[Round "9.2"]
>[Number "270"]
>[White "TSCP 1.73"]
>[Black "List 4.61"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[TimeControl "40/2400"]
>
>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d5 3. exd5 e4

Theory (at least my 1988 'Elephant Gambit' book) says that Qxd5 is condsidered
much weaker (reaching a bad position from the Scandinavian) than 3...e4 which
seems to be the one of two main choices here.(other main line 3...Bd6)
7.c4 is not even mentioned as a sideline and I suspect that 7...Nb4? is a
positional error (7...Nb6 followed by 0-0 and Re8 seems better to me).
Of course one might perhaps maintain that 2...d5?! is already losing (:

Regards,
Günther



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