Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 11:33:27 01/24/03
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On January 24, 2003 at 09:11:03, Uri Blass wrote: >I play a correspondence game and I decided to follow shredder7's book in the >first moves. > >one of my games started 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6(I expected 3...cxd4 and only >this move is denoted by !!) > >My first thought was that I should punish my opponent for wrong order of moves >but I see that Shredder has !! only for 4.Nc3 that let my opponent go back for >the main line by 4...cxd4 > >I started to look at other lines and found that 4.Bb5+ is mentioned as ? >I continue to look forward in shredder's book to understand the reason for it >and found >4...Nbd7 5.Nc3 cxd4 and now both captures of d4 are mentioned by ? > >The only alternative not to lose material is Bxd7+ and it is not mentioned in >the book. >Note that Fritz8 and Shredder7 evaluate all 3 captures with positive score but I >did not give it hours to analyze. > >I will probably play the main line but my question is not what to play but what >is the reason for these ?'s. > >espacially I do not undertand the ? to Nxd4 and Qxd4 because the only >alternative(Bxd7+) seems to me to be worse. > >Uri 3...Sf6 is a common move (played often by Shirov for example) and not a wrong move order. the idea is to prevent white from playing 4.Qxd4 Nc6 5.Bb5 Bd7 6.Bxc6 Bxc6 7.c4. the question marks in the books are meaningless comments.
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