Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:20:04 05/27/04
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On May 27, 2004 at 13:02:25, Louis Fagliano wrote: >On May 27, 2004 at 11:14:38, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On May 27, 2004 at 08:47:04, Tony Hedlund wrote: >> >> >> >>Just a quick note. Something is going _terribly_ wrong with Crafty's opening >>book. It will _never_ play 1. c4 with white. And it will never play 1. ... c5 >>against 1. e4. >> >>Any idea what book is being used??? >> > >Is there some reason why you _want_ Crafty to avoid the Sicilian? It's heavily >loaded with theory and tactics, but then again so are just about any other major >openings except maybe Reti/Barcza Systems and the English Opening and you want >it to avoid the English Opening as well. Could you please explain? Thanks in >advance. Sure. The sicilian is a very popular opening, and as a result, the commercial book-makers have lots of cute tricks and traps. I simply avoid it to avoid the majority of the preparation in it...
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