Author: Peter Berger
Date: 10:59:52 09/14/03
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On September 14, 2003 at 13:29:14, Drexel,Michael wrote: >On September 14, 2003 at 12:29:53, Peter Berger wrote: > >>On September 14, 2003 at 02:55:37, Drexel,Michael wrote: >> >>>[Event "?"] >>>[Site "?"] >>>[Date "????.??.??"] >>>[Round "?"] >>>[White "New Game"] >>>[Black "Hiarcs 9"] >>>[Result "*"] >>>[PlyCount "10"] >>> >>>1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. c4 Nb6 5. Nf3 Nc6 * >>> >>>It plays 5...Nc6 out of book. A move with a bad reputation. >> >>Maybe this move is not as bad as most people think. There has been an long and >>interesting analysis in the latest issue of German magazine Kassiber on it, >>mostly about the supposed refutation 6. e6 - it is not clear if it leads to >>anything real - if 6.e6 were no big danger 5...Nc6 would make much sense. > >I dont read Kaissiber. I don't read any other chess magazine :). > >I did not state that the line is refuted. I said it has a bad reputation and >therefore it is not a good choice for a program unless there are some good >novelties in the book. That is not the case. > No objections. I don't think the Hiarcs book is so bad at all btw(it also _does_ have some interesting novelties) but IMHO its creator didn't take into account what the ChessBase booklearner with its "optimal" settings will do to it, say in SSDF matches. The weird lines will show up much more often than intended IMHO. Peter
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