Author: Baldomero Garcia, Jr.
Date: 05:13:01 05/18/99
I was going over a game in Nunn's book, "Secrets of Grandmaster Play". In the first game, an interesting variation of the Vienna is played: 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 N:e4 4. Qh5 Nd6 5. Bb3 Nc6 6. Nb5 g6 7. Qf3 f5 8. Qd5 Qe7 9. N:c7+ Kd8 10. N:a8 b6 Nunn plays the black pieces and goes on to win the game. Now, I won't argue whether the opening is good or bad for either side. However, what interests me is how a player would respond with such a huge material deficit, in particular, how a computer would handle the black pieces. I'd recommend you put two of your computer programs against each other, turn the opening book off (otherwise White wins rather easily), and see what happens. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. I'd invite other computer chess enthusiasts to post some of their results.
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