Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 11:44:01 09/11/04
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On September 11, 2004 at 03:24:44, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On September 10, 2004 at 20:35:39, Drexel,Michael wrote: > >>On September 10, 2004 at 03:20:24, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>Here you can compare Jonny 2.70 using different Opening Books, first with Harry >>>Schnapp Mainbokk and then with o-eville.pgn. Take a close look at the dirrent >>>results. For those that argue that an opening book doesn't make a big >>>difference, please take a loser look. >> >>The engines were often out of book at move 4 or 5. >>You really think thats an experiment about opening books? > >The length of the opening line is not that important, the purpose of a good >opening is also to take the opponent out of any good response, it doesn't matter >if the first move is 1.h3 as long as you accomplish to confuse your opponent :-) Rubbish! The books certainly have much more moves. If you want to test opening books it does not make sense at all to limit the number of moves in this way. > >> >>Two examples to prove my point: >> >>[D] r1bqk2r/ppp2pbp/2nppnp1/8/2PPP3/P1N2N2/1P2BPPP/R1BQK2R b KQkq - 0 7 >> >>Here Jonny out of book played 7...d5? >>This is obviously a mistake. White should be much better after 8.e5. >>However Movei managed to lose this game. >> >>[D] rnbqk2r/pp3ppp/2p1pn2/3p4/2PP4/P1P2P2/4P1PP/R1BQKBNR w KQkq - 0 7 >> >>The last book move 6...c6 is not very popular. >>Movei came up with 7.cxd5? (Thank you very much) exd5 8.g4 and got smashed. >>The results of such games tell us nothing about the opening books used. >> >>Conclusion: >>It was just a random result. >> >>Michael > >The purpose of a good opening is also to take the opponent out of any good >response, therefore, even if I open with 1.h3 which is considered a bad open, I >have managed to win a lot of games against friends of my same rating. So 1.h3 takes the opponent out of any good response???? This has nothing to do with the subject as well. Michael
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