Author: Günther Simon
Date: 13:33:01 10/25/03
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On October 25, 2003 at 15:37:00, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >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 Djorde, I dont think ...b4 was desastrous but Rebel just sacrificed a pawn without need later. In fact I believe that the simple ...a5 instead of the useless Bg4 gives Black a slight edge. Best regards, Günther
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