Author: José Carlos
Date: 14:47:21 01/10/04
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On January 10, 2004 at 17:33:03, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >Over the last month or so I've added mobility & control of space to Zappa. I >think it plays a lot better with it, although it does slow down the search >considerably. > >The problem is that Zappa hates black. Especially the sicilian. Its not too >unusual for Zappa to come out of book on move 8-9 in the sicilian and think its >down almost a pawn. > >So the question for all you sicilian experts is: In the sicilian defense black >gives white control of the center and lots of mobility for all of his pieces. >What does black get? > >anthony Counterplay on c file: usually black move a rook there and threats Rxc3 and, as usually black has pieces attacking white center (Bb7, Nc6, Nf6) the exchange sac allows to destroy white center. I have Averno understand sicilian much better with black after tuning exchange sac eval. Also black pieces has a lot of "potential energy". Hard to code, but the usually strong black pawn structure and black pieces having an eye on white center is, IMO, the key for sicilian. I haven't played the sicilian much when I was an active player. It needs the player to understand dynamics and a lot of energy to counterattack in the appropiate moment. I was too lazy for that myself... José C.
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