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Subject: Re: Opening C42 - what do you guys think?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:12:52 12/21/04

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On December 21, 2004 at 12:34:04, Jason Kent wrote:

>I have been playing this opening on FICS alot and have been getting some easy
>wins with white.  It is a great opening to prepare for a tourney game. :)  There
>are so many ways black can go wrong.
>
>1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nxe4 4.Nc3 Nxc3 5.dxc3
>
>rnbqkb1r/pppp1ppp/8/4p3/2B5/2P2N2/PPP2PPP/R1BQK2R b KQkq - 0 5
>
>Black to move.  Does your engine like f6?  The books for Shredder 8 and Wael
>Deeb's Wizard v4 for arena have f6 as the mainline.  Shredder's book even has c6
>noted bad (c6?) in the opening book.
>
>Why do Shredder 8 and my CM9_Slayer prefer c6 by a large margin?  And is either
>move really superior.

Here is Shredder 7.04 after a couple hours --> likes c6 best.
If it is bad, then that is why it had to be marked in the book.  Even after a
very long think, that is the move that Shredder is going to choose from 2
seconds forward (for who knows how long).

Analysis from E:\f6.epd
12/21/2004 1:58:52 PM Level: 99999 Seconds
Analyzing engine: Shredder 7.04 UCI

1) f6;
    Searching move: f7-f6
    Best move (Shredder 7.04 UCI): c7-c6
    Not found in: 27:46:39
   illegal command
     2/5-	00:00	          56	448	-0.63	d7d6 00
     2/5	00:00	          99	792	-0.97	d7d6 00
     3/9	00:00	         555	3.936	-0.92	d7d6 Nf3g5 f7f5
     3/9+	00:00	         761	5.397	-0.91	Nb8c6 Bc4xf7+ Ke8xf7 Qd1xd7+ Bc8xd7
     3/9+	00:00	         830	5.886	-0.56	Nb8c6 Bc4xf7+ Ke8xf7 Qd1xd7+ Bc8xd7
     3/11	00:00	       1.069	6.852	-0.56	Nb8c6 Nf3g5 f7f5
     4/6-	00:00	       1.751	11.224	-0.96	Nb8c6 Nf3g5 e5e4 Ng5xe4
     4/9	00:00	       2.544	14.790	-1.16	Nb8c6 Qd1d5 Qd8f6 00
     4/11+	00:00	       3.539	20.575	-1.15	d7d6 Nf3g5 f7f6 Qd1xd6 c7xd6
     4/13	00:00	       4.205	22.486	-0.96	d7d6 Nf3g5 f7f6 Bc4f7+ Ke8e7
     5/10-	00:00	       5.720	30.588	-1.21	d7d6 Nf3g5 Bf8e7 Ng5xf7 a7a5
     5/15	00:00	      13.726	62.675	-1.60	d7d6 Nf3xe5 Bc8e6 Bc4xe6 f7xe6
     5/15+	00:00	      14.783	67.502	-1.59	Nb8c6 Qd1d5 Qd8f6 00
     5/15	00:00	      16.791	71.756	-1.34	Nb8c6 Nf3g5 d7d5 Bc4xd5 f7f5
     5/15+	00:00	      19.038	76.152	-1.33	Bf8c5 00 f7f6 Qd1xd7+ Bc8xd7 Bc4f7+
Ke8xf7
     5/15+	00:00	      20.693	77.793	-0.98	Bf8c5 00 00 Qd1xd7 Bc8xd7
     5/15	00:00	      22.928	86.195	-0.94	Bf8c5 00 00 Bc1g5 Qd8e8
     6/18-	00:00	      35.289	118.818	-1.19	Bf8c5 Qd1d5 f7f6 Qd5xc5
     6/18	00:00	      42.960	130.975	-1.30	Bf8c5 Qd1d5 Qd8e7 00 d7d6 Bc1g5 Qe7e6
     6/18+	00:00	      63.638	169.701	-1.29	Bf8e7 Nf3xe5 00 00 d7d6 Qd1xd6 c7xd6
Bc4xf7+ Rf8xf7
     6/20+	00:00	      72.625	185.741	-0.94	Bf8e7 Nf3xe5 00 00 d7d6 Qd1xd6 c7xd6
Bc4xf7+ Rf8xf7
     6/20	00:00	      81.061	199.657	-0.62	Bf8e7 Nf3xe5 00 00 d7d6 Ne5g4 Bc8e6
     7/23	00:00	     127.330	254.660	-0.61	Bf8e7 Nf3xe5 00 Qd1f3 Be7f6 Qf3d5
Qd8e7 Bc1f4
     8/27	00:01	     290.919	358.274	-0.48	Bf8e7 Nf3xe5 00 00 d7d6 Ne5xf7 Rf8xf7
Bc4xf7+ Kg8xf7 Rf1e1
     9/26	00:01	     501.424	411.340	-0.55	Bf8e7 Nf3xe5 00 Bc4xf7+ Rf8xf7 Ne5xf7
Kg8xf7 Qd1d5+ Kf7f8 00 c7c6 Qd5h5
    10/19-	00:01	     694.784	431.811	-0.80	Bf8e7 Nf3xe5 00 Qd1f3 Be7f6 Ne5g4
Qd8e7+ Bc1e3 b7b5 Qf3xa8 Qe7xe3+ f2xe3
    10/28	00:02	     846.085	455.129	-0.87	Bf8e7 Nf3xe5 00 Qd1f3 Be7f6 Ne5g4
Bf6e7 00 d7d5 Bc4d3 c7c5
    10/28+	00:02	   1.237.882	474.466	-0.86	c7c6 Nf3xe5 d7d5 Bc4d3 Bf8d6 Qd1h5
g7g6 Qh5f5 Bc8xf5
    10/28+	00:03	   1.440.061	490.316	-0.51	c7c6 Nf3xe5 d7d5 Bc4d3 Bf8d6 Qd1h5
g7g6 Ne5xg6 f7xg6 g2g3 g6xh5
    10/29	00:04	   2.083.975	503.254	-0.24	c7c6 Nf3xe5 d7d5 00 Bf8d6 Rf1e1 00
Bc4b3 Rf8e8 Bc1f4 f7f6 Ne5d3 Re8xe1+ Qd1xe1
    11/28	00:06	   3.185.869	513.601	-0.23	c7c6 Nf3xe5 d7d5 00 Bf8d6 Rf1e1 00
Bc4b3 Qd8h4 Ne5f3 Bd6g3 Nf3xh4 Bg3xh2+
    12/29	00:11	   5.686.549	521.414	-0.17	c7c6 Nf3xe5 d7d5 00 Bf8d6 Rf1e1 00
Bc4d3 f7f6 Ne5f3 Nb8d7 c3c4 Rf8e8 Re1xe8+ Qd8xe8 c4xd5 c6xd5
    13/29	00:18	   9.487.326	523.901	-0.24	c7c6 Nf3xe5 d7d5 00 Bf8d6 Rf1e1 00
Bc4d3 Nb8d7 Bc1f4 Nd7xe5 Bf4xe5 Bd6xe5 Re1xe5
    14/31	00:33	  17.624.755	525.375	-0.30	c7c6 Nf3xe5 d7d5 00 Bf8d6 Rf1e1 00
Bc4d3 Nb8d7 Ne5xd7 Bc8xd7 Qd1h5 g7g6 Qh5h6 Qd8b6 Ra1b1
    15/39	01:23	  44.349.529	530.040	-0.13	c7c6 Nf3xe5 d7d5 00 Bf8d6 Rf1e1 00
Bc4d3 Nb8d7 Bc1f4 Bd6xe5 Bf4xe5 Nd7xe5 Re1xe5
    16/36-	01:45	  55.313.422	525.857	-0.38	c7c6 Nf3xe5 d7d5 00 Bf8d6 Rf1e1 00
Bc4d3 Nb8d7 Bc1f4 Bd6xe5 Bf4xe5 Nd7xe5 Re1xe5 Bc8e6 Qd1h5 Qd8h4 Qh5xh4
    16/37	02:29	  79.069.574	529.336	-0.38	c7c6 Nf3xe5 d7d5 00 Bf8d6 Rf1e1 00
Bc4d3 Nb8d7 Bc1f4 Nd7f6 h2h3 Rf8e8 Ne5d7 Qd8xd7 Qd1e2
    17/45	06:08	 194.232.879	527.292	-0.30	c7c6 Nf3xe5 d7d5 00 Bf8d6 Rf1e1 00
Bc4d3 Nb8d7 Ne5xd7 Bc8xd7 Qd1h5 f7f5 c3c4 Qd8a5 Bc1e3
    18/47	14:22	 445.347.342	516.550	-0.28	c7c6 Nf3xe5 d7d5 00 Bf8d6 Rf1e1 00
Bc4d3 Nb8d7 Ne5xd7 Bc8xd7 Qd1h5 f7f5 c3c4 Qd8a5 Bc1e3
    19/53	30:21	 926.846.522	508.815	-0.33	c7c6 Nf3xe5 d7d5 00 Bf8d6 Rf1e1 00
Bc4d3 Nb8d7 Ne5xd7 Qd8xd7 Qd1h5 h7h6 Bc1g5 Qd7g4 Qh5xg4 Bd6c5 Bg5e3
    20/53	1:13:48	2.269.167,057	512.482	-0.26	c7c6 Nf3xe5 d7d5 00 Bf8d6 Rf1e1 00
Bc4d3 Nb8d7 Ne5xd7 Bc8xd7 Qd1h5 f7f5 Bc1e3 Qd8e8
    21/57	2:45:00	5.020.276,636	507.092	-0.25	c7c6 Nf3xe5 d7d5 00 Bf8d6 Rf1e1 00
Bc4d3 Nb8d7 Ne5xd7 Bc8xd7 Qd1h5 f7f5 c3c4 Qd8a5 Bc1e3
   12/21/2004 4:54:41 PM, Time for this analysis: 02:55:43, Rated time: 27:46:39



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