Author: Joseph Ciarrochi
Date: 23:05:53 02/06/06
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On February 06, 2006 at 18:38:01, Heinz van Kempen wrote: >>I would like to see a thematic 1. b4 tournament, but I guess I am strongly in >>the minority there. > >Hi Dann, > >1.b4 is really not bad and I used it for a long time in tournament chess to >avoid being killed by players with superior knowledge of opening chess theory. > >I also used it in my 25 years correspondence chess practice. > >These lines are definitely not exhausted by chess theory :-). > >Best Regards >Heinz Yes, I too would love to see b4. This is exactly the thing that would be good for your tournment, hienz. human super gm's refuse to play it. so lets force the engine super gms to play it. If black gets around 46% or better, then it is viable I would also love to see some thematic tourmements featuring the dragon or the KID. I would particularly like to see one on the accelerated dragon. I would also like to see a thematic tournement featuring the scandanavian, another opening i think is underutilized by super GM's. I would particularly like to see these two lines covered (pgn below diagrams; both openings recomended by im andrew martin) [D]rn2k2r/pp3ppp/2pbpn2/q3N2P/2BPb1P1/2N5/PPP2P2/R1BQK2R w KQkq - 0 11 Below is, imo, the most interesting and relatively unplayed line at the top level [D]2kr3r/ppq2p2/1n1b2p1/B1pPpp2/2P4P/1B6/PP2QPP1/2KR3R w - - 0 19 Hienz, tell me if you decide to test either of these. If not, I'll test them using very long time controls on my old faithful computer (though the games won't be as pretty as those generated by your multiple processor 6 million ghz machines.) [Event "?"] [Site "?"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "black scandi versus 7ne5"] [Black "?"] [Result "*"] [ECO "B01"] [PlyCount "20"] 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 c6 6. Bc4 Bf5 7. Ne5 e6 8. g4 Bg6 9. h4 Bd6 10. h5 Be4 * [Event "?"] [Site "?"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "black scandi with ne4 and nxf"] [Black "?"] [Result "*"] [ECO "B01"] [PlyCount "36"] 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qa5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 c6 6. Bc4 Bf5 7. Bd2 e6 8. Ne4 Qc7 9. Nxf6+ gxf6 10. Qe2 Nd7 11. O-O-O O-O-O 12. Nh4 Bg6 13. Bb3 c5 14. d5 Nb6 15. Nxg6 hxg6 16. Ba5 e5 17. c4 Bd6 18. h4 f5 *
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