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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