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Subject: You cannot be more wrong

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 09:01:17 11/14/03

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On November 13, 2003 at 22:01:56, Bob Durrett wrote:

>
>The correct play for White in King's Indian is to advance queenside pawns and
>thereby obtain lots of space.
>
>Chess engines would do that anyway.  Even the "weak" engines would do that.
>
>It seems a mistake to play an opening where the normal computer moves are also
>the strategically correct moves.
>
>Hence, find something else and not KI.  Play an opening where the correct moves
>are those which are hard for a chess engine to find and are not the moves the
>engine would naturally and normally want to play.
>
>I cannot recommend a specific opening but maybe someone else can.  Uri?
>

KID is the best opening against computers, provided that you yourself know how
to play it. Even though I'm rated about 2250, I have always scored way above 50%
playing KID with black pieces against Junior-Fritz-Shredder. Just one example:

http://www.chess-archive.com/ccc.php?art_id=307177

The computers neglect black's kingside attack and fool around like a 1600 rated
player.


>Bob D.



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