Author: Harald Faber
Date: 22:37:08 10/29/03
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On October 28, 2003 at 17:38:43, John Merlino wrote: >About one opening move in the second game, I would like some insights into from >the strong players, if I could: > >1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Be7 7.O-O > >[D]rnbqk2r/ppp1bppp/8/3p4/3Pn3/3B1N2/PPP2PPP/RNBQ1RK1 b kq - 0 7 > >7...Bf5? > >My point is, if this move is so poor, why is it still in an opening book? >CM9000's book always plays the very common 7...Nc6 in this position. If its >opponent plays 7...Bf5, it will respond with either 8.c4 or 8.Re1 with equal >probability. > >Any thoughts would be appreciated.... > >jm Indeed a justified question. I just loaded the general.ctg. Black's move #6 shows Be7 active only with NORMAL book options. If the book options are set to OPTIMAL it leaves 6...Nc6 with 94.6% and 6...Bd6 with 5.3% playing preference. What is strange is that both with NORMAL and OPTIMAL there is only one active move for black after 6...Be7 7.O-O: It is 7...Nc6 with 100%. This leaves some open questions to the SSDF tester I'd say...
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