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Subject: Re: Halloween Gambit Games

Author: Eelco de Groot

Date: 20:00:51 06/06/05

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On June 06, 2005 at 17:23:51, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On June 06, 2005 at 09:59:46, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On June 04, 2005 at 23:40:27, Vegadapirate wrote:
>>
>>>Anybody have a collection of games with halloween gambit this openings seems to
>>>have almost always a win for white. here are some games..
>>
>>In most of the games the white player is stronger than the black one; that's
>>probably the main reason.
>
>Also, look at the scores when falling out of book.
>
>It appears many programs may have bad book lines for this formation.

Hello Dann,

These would be very bad book lines? Shredder against Shredder both announcing
White has Mate in 8 first move after the opening? I have heard Shredder being
accused of some bad lines in the Leiden tournament but that beats it. I don't
believe these are any standard booklines but rather some own lines/games
Vegadapirate was analyzing in Arena?

If these are from actual games than indeed Black was not well prepared.

That doesn't mean that Halloween Attack  is a bad opening with White against
computers or humans if programs or humans don't see White's compensation.
Steffen Jakob from Hossa and others seem to have played it often, as he tells
about on his homepage. There is a Bill Gates line, an Aardwolf line and what
not..

 Eelco




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