Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 01:01:23 10/30/03
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On October 30, 2003 at 01:37:08, Harald Faber wrote: >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... No, it doesn't. Hiarcs9 played 7...Bf5. IIRC the move is marked as tournament move in the Hiarcs9.ctg books. Michael Michael
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