Author: Heinz van Kempen
Date: 02:50:25 02/10/06
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>Hi ! > >Thanks for your answer. >I think that you can see nice wins for white. >But after years of using computers, analysing openings and games, I dont think >that computer will find a move that will show to the humans that you can really >fight for an advantage after 1.b4. > >Of course in some variations, computers can find improvments over actual theory >on this opening, but nothing that says that 1.b4 is really fighting for an >advantage. > >But still, looking forward to see that I'm wrong. > >Best regards Hi Bigler, honestly we do not expect 1.b4 proving to be a killer move or maybe on one level with 1.e4 or 1.d4. We will get some novelties and maybe we can use them to surprise our opponents in Blitz and tournament games rather than in correspondence chess. And after all this move is still interesting and neglected a bit by chess theory, although I have two books in my collection dealing with it, one sritten by Sokolsky. Best Regards Heinz
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