Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 00:31:27 03/02/04
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On March 01, 2004 at 19:08:06, Peter Berger wrote: >On March 01, 2004 at 18:59:15, Telmo Escobar wrote: > >>On February 29, 2004 at 18:03:20, Peter Berger wrote: >> >> >>> >>>There is one major conclusion - can't one of the hobby bookcooks help poor PM a >>>little? It sure needs a better, or at least reasonable opening book. >>> >> >> I could try to edit the file preferred.txt (and then build preferred.bin anew) >>in order to avoid some of the trouble PM faces in this match. But I assume one >>has to preserve the particular style of the engine. For instance, after 1.e4 e6, >>I'd think 2.d4 is best, yet this doesn't look a "postmodern" move. Probably >>2.d3, or even 2.Qe2 a la Chigorin, would be acceptable. >> >> Concerning the Dragon, a petty line of mine, I don't call it an hypermodern >>opening either. >> >> Telmo > >Just forget about PM's "hypermodern" name that it can't really live up to yet, >and provide it with some decent book :). > Peter is right here! :-) >My gut feeling: against 1. d4 Nimzo and Queen's Indian, against 1. e4 maybe the >Sveshnikov or Paulsen, with white just the major 1. e4 and 1. d4 mainlines >without many modifications - or anything else which is just a bit more >mainstream ;). > I've pretty much switched to your point of view now. Last night I made a lot of changes to the lines you picked up on, with the intention of choosing more mainstream options. When I did a quick blunder check overnight, I found that one or two of the new QGA lines look wrong, so I'll revisit them tonight if I get time. Later on, I'm just going to switch the preferred book to be completely based on "normal" opening play, rather than trying to choose obscure lines that PM has, at some time in the past, done well with. >I am pretty sure that you'll have an easy time to reach a major improvement, and >PM's fans will be grateful :). > >PEter I'll be the most grateful I think. Andrew
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