Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:47:31 01/06/04
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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 Ugh... Where does the king knight end up? >or >d4 d5 Nc3 Nf6 f3 > same question... There are times to play f3, times not to play f3. I don't like it there, it is probably going to end up making the pawn structure a bit inflexible for a computer to deal with very well. >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 ? Nimzo said it best: +first+ pieces, and +then+ pawns. :)
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