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Subject: Re: King's Indian Inappropriate against Chess Engine

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 09:07:45 11/14/03

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On November 13, 2003 at 22:39:59, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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?
>
>Stonewall is popular.  Works sometimes in blitz.

*was* popular. You no longer can score well against computers using Stonewall.
Unlike King's Indian, Stonewall is not such a sound opening for someone trying
to win the game.

In the classical Stonewall formation:

[D]8/pp4pp/2p1p3/3p1p2/2PP4/1P4P1/P3PPBP/8 w - - 0 1

f3 continued by e4 is enough to open the position and doom black to a quick
defeat due to his weak dark squares (especially if the dark bishop has already
been exchanged by b3, Ba3, while the knight is still on b1).



>
>Have a look here:
>http://www.angelfire.com/on/anticomputer/



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