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Subject: Re: Why do grandmasters love these moves?

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 08:02:41 05/22/04

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On May 22, 2004 at 10:31:02, Andrey Popov wrote:

>The following four positions are taken from Dann Corbit's best7.epd file.
>In these positions GMs use only one move more than 100 times.
>They never use other moves (at least in Dann's games collection).
>The grandmasters' opinion seems to be strange.
>Which positional reasons can your suggest for GM's choise?
>1)
>[D]r1bqk2r/1p2bppp/p1n1pn2/8/P1Bp4/4PN2/1P2QPPP/RNBR2K1 w kq - bm exd4; c0
>"exd4(105)"; am Nxd4;
>Grandmasters love exd4. Why not Nxd4?

     This question is easy to answer: GM's want to win and exd4 leads
     to a game of full tension whereas Nxd4 gives a dead and rather
     statical position with no or at least less winning chances.
     Kurt



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