Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 22:40:43 02/06/06
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On February 07, 2006 at 01:17:05, Heinz van Kempen wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>after more thoughts I find the idea to run the CEGT Championships 40/120 as
>theme tournaments (like proposed by Joseph and Dann) in order to see if engines
>will "write" new chess theory for example quite fascinating.
>
>Dann proposed 1.b4, a rather uncommon but not bad line also called Orang Utan,
>Sokolsky or Polish opening, so the first double round robin could be with this
>one.
>
>Here is something about the history taken from this site:
>
>http://www.angelfire.com/home/bstjean/sokolsky/
>
>The origin of this spectacular opening is more or less well known. Tartakower
>played it at the beginning of this century and supposedly had the idea of the
>"b" climbing pawn after observing apes at the zoo. But Tartakower never took
>this opening seriously. Bugayev, a Russian master, also played it in matches
>and in a simultaneous game against Steinitz. Also, Englisch and Schlechter
>played the Orangutan in games before Tartakower even dreamed of it! All these
>players had opened a door that was to be entered by a young Russian master...
>It is only after many excellent (but sadly many lost) analysis by Sokolsky and
>many of his correspondence trials (and even OTB games!) that this opening really
>got serious treatment. Sokolsky (and later Katalimov) produced the first serious
>study of this fantastic debut and even played it!
>
>Nowadays, top players at the international level (OTB) almost never play it
>(except for Ljubojevic and Larsen in their early days) and the Orang Utan is
>usually used for its element of surprise. The only known exception that I know
>is Gilles Mirallès (France champion) who played it for most of its career.
>Besides these few trials in OTB games, the Orang Utan opening is mostly used in
>correspondence chess.
>
>There is also a magazine and books dealing with this:
>
>http://www.angelfire.com/home/bstjean/sokolsky/pages/magazine.html
http://www.algonet.se/~marek/
And even more so:
http://www.algonet.se/~marek/system.htm
{Sub-links are clickable}
>So my question to Dann would be: Do you have a special interesting subvariation
>(line) in mind?
I suggest forcing only the first move and letting the programs use whatever book
advice they have on it.
>Joseph mentions the Kan variation. Any concrete line here? Please restrict it
>then to a maximum of 12 moves (24 plies) we will give before the engines start
>to calculate.
>
>Proposals for variatios are highly welcome.
>
>Best Regards
>Heinz
>
>http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/
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