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Subject: Re: collecting 1.b4 games for replay zone

Author: Bigler

Date: 02:02:23 02/10/06

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Hi !

I have to say as for white, 1.b4 is that convincing in the sense that if you
want to fight for an advantage, this is not so good. There are ways for black to
have an equal position (do not misunderstand me, not drawing position).
One example could be the variation after 1.b4 d5 2.Bb2 Qd6.
I don’t want to discuss too much variations and analysis.

As a general "law", I would say that when playing white colour, you have 1 tempo
in advance that you should use the more efficiently.
In the past, I used to play 1.f4 with very interesting games.
After discussing with GM Petr Kiriakov, he convinced me that ok, 1.f4 or 1.b3 or
etc is not bad, but by not playing 1.e4 or 1.d4 you already loose the advantage
of playing white.

I have to say, today that I agree with this argument.

best regards

• Re: collecting 1.b4 games for replay zone Heinz van Kempen 02:10:31 02/10/06
  • Re: collecting 1.b4 games for replay zone Bigler 02:35:47 02/10/06
    • Re: collecting 1.b4 games for replay zone Heinz van Kempen 02:50:25 02/10/06
• Re: collecting 1.b4 games for replay zone Bigler 02:03:22 02/10/06

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