Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 12:37:00 10/25/03
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On October 25, 2003 at 15:08:35, Jeroen Noomen wrote: >On October 25, 2003 at 08:06:28, Eduard Nemeth wrote: Nonsense. 8. Bd5?! is a bad move and black was slightly better in the opening. Jeroen >>8. Bd5 was a strong move against Rebel, or not? >> >>Very nice move! >> >>Eduard As you say that Eduard doesn't make sense and think that black was better, let me refresh your memory and tell you that Mega 2003 lists three games with 8.Bd5 in which the score for white is no less than 2.5 points out of 3 possible... Not to mention the classic, Cohn - Duras 1913, in which Cohn could have easily beat Duras, one of the strongest masters of the time. White is not better, but he is certainly not worse off here. Especially when looking at the terminal node of the line, after white's Nc3 and expecting the disastrous black ...b4 (comments by Sune Larsson and Eelco de Groot point in the same direction...). Thus Ruffian got what he wanted: a solid line with a couple of chronically weak spots in the Black setup :-) Rgds. Djordje
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