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Subject: Re: Correction with a Correction?

Author: A.G.B. Bluemers

Date: 12:06:00 10/24/05

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On October 24, 2005 at 01:06:34, Telmo C. Escobar wrote:

>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

I just tried but in the case of
1.f4 !?
it gets blue too.(it's highlighted yellow on black when the cursor is on it)



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