Author: Scott Knoke
Date: 05:49:40 02/07/06
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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 > >So my question to Dann would be: Do you have a special interesting subvariation >(line) in mind? > >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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