Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 13:09:47 11/13/03
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On November 13, 2003 at 12:50:01, Timmay wrote: >On November 13, 2003 at 11:49:46, Dan Andersson wrote: > >> Mighty strange ideas about the openings IMO. Both Grunfeld and the KID are >>still viable openings nowhere close to being busted. Some topical lines always >>fail. But In the main they are sound combative openings. >> And opening fashion change when the new fresh ideas get tested OTB and proper >>ways of meeting them get known rendering them excercises of memorization. Thus >>neccessitating changing to new pastures until the next batch of innovation >>ensues. Some openings never go out of fashion while others surface when the >>conditions are right. Examples of the former would be the Slav and the Ruy while >>Russian and Scotch examples of the latter. >> >>MvH Dan Andersson > >Au contraire...they are "very" close to being busted. Kasparov has tried >everything in the Grunfeld, early Bg4's with b7 sacs etc. The Grunfeld Na6 >variation is fine in the Nf3 and Qb3 line with an active game. However the >exchange variation with cxd5 Nxd5 e4 Nxc3 bxc3 etc. is a case where black simply >defends too long for it to be good. The endgames are ALL favorable for white. >Kramnik has fended off Garry easily with it, Karpov beat Garry in the exchange >variation. The Grunfeld exchange variation is just too initiative-retaining for >white. Garry used the nice logic, "Why struggle to defend the position so long >in an inferior situation, when I can draw with no trouble in the Queen's Gambit >Accepted." Indeed, why? > >King's Indian mainline DOES indeed give white all the play in the b4 lines. >Occasionally we see it in a Smirin game or a Radjabov game at the top level, but >Leko beat Radjabov very easily with the Bayonett attack in their recent game. I >don't know what to tell you. The theory of chess openings is drifting away from >that g6 move. It appears that the more central openings are more correct. >Queen's Indian with the queenside fianchetto is better than the king's indian >because b6 restrains the c4 pawn whereas g6 doesn't do anything to the same >effect. > >The Slav and the Ruy Lopez are going nowhere anytime soon. They are >centrally-based openings that have the soul of chess in each of its moves. Your commetns are a bit funny, as we now see that Kasparov has at least equal play after a Kings Indian opening. Torstein
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