Author: Telmo C. Escobar
Date: 22:06:34 10/23/05
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On October 24, 2005 at 00:58:03, Telmo C. Escobar wrote: >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 Moves are marked blue when there is a *question mark* in them. To be precise: 1.h3? 1.a3?! 1.f3?? are all marked blue, but 1.b3 1.f4!? 1.d4! 1.e4!! are *not* marked blue. They remain black. So we deduce that blue moves are bad. But they can still be played if not marked "not a tournament move" (red). Telmo
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