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Subject: Re: A strange SSDF game? why?

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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