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Subject: Re: Interesting Opening in Engine-Engine game... comments welcome

Author: Telmo C. Escobar

Date: 21:58:03 10/23/05

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On October 23, 2005 at 18:32:23, Mike Hood wrote:

>On October 23, 2005 at 18:09:05, Dan Andersson wrote:
>
>> Hiarcs is basically shooting itself in the foot in the second move. 2. ... f5
>>is the Latvian Counter Gambit. It's Coffeehouse chess from move 3. ... Qe7
>>instead of 3. ... Qf6 that would give black a mere bad game.
>>
>>MvH Dan Andersson
>
>So you're saying the book contains a bad line? 2...f5 is played with 8.3%
>probability. The move is marked blue in the opening book display... does anybody
>know what that means? Green is good, red is bad (ie the program will never play
>the move even though it has a book reply to it), but what is blue?

 Moves are marked blue when there is a comment. For example, if in a book where
the move 1.a3 it has no mark, and you put a question sign in it, like 1.a3?, the
move will appear blue. I guess this has no effect on the probability of the move
to be played by an engine.

 Telmo



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