Author: Peter Berger
Date: 10:32:51 01/05/04
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On January 05, 2004 at 13:28:12, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On January 05, 2004 at 13:15:17, Peter Berger wrote: > >>On January 05, 2004 at 13:04:23, Rajen Gupta wrote: >> >>>perhaps you could elaborate more on the strangeness. >> >>I thought Fritz's choice of opening was pretty amazing in this game. I assume >>some bug in setup or program. The other games in the match featured more usual >>openings though. >> >>It's interesting to look at the sequence of openings in the long 40 games >>matches btw. Maybe the effect of booklearning is still underestimated, although >>the ranking goes well in general with other rating lists that use uniform start >>positions. By head I remember one match where Junior 8 won nearly every white >>game with 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 . > > >? > >f3 is always good. no matter if you play > >d4 Nf6 f3 >or >d4 d5 Nc3 Nf6 f3 > >only e4 e6 d4 d5 i would first try to STOP the bishop to move to Bb4. >maybe 3.a3 and later 4.f3 > >f3 and then changing into Blackmar Diemer patterns. > >Why not ? Although I don't agree with your chess analysis above, I definitely didn't mean to imply that there is anything wrong with 4. f3 in the Nimzo-Indian. But as Junior was able to repeat a won line again and again in this case, it probably had some influence on the match result.
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