Author: Peter Berger
Date: 12:42:41 11/13/05
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On November 13, 2005 at 10:10:42, Marc Lacrosse wrote: >Thanks Peter ! >Did it happen to you too for crafty ? > >Marc I don't know if my personal experiences could be used as an example for anything as I never used so much time of serious work on it and don't know enough. But can't you even see the same phenomenon in human chess too ? It's crucial to have a workable repertoire with black, and maybe you can even limit this to countering 1. e4 mainly, so people concentrate on it at first . An example would be the Petroff and Sveshnikov , super GMs have worked these out as perfect and reliable defenses for their purposes (equalizing) , but they don't show the same speed of development when it is about finding good weapons against. Maybe it also comes with the game itself, as black usually makes the major choices when it is about choosing the opening system while from white point's of view it is only one of zillions of systems that could appear on the board. And it also matters more. One mistake with black and you are often out already, while with white choosing second best moves is often not that much of a problem. But same as you I have noticed that quality of opening books in major computerchess tournaments seems to be much higher for the black side, whatever the real reason. Peter
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