Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 21:44:22 05/18/99
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On May 18, 1999 at 08:13:01, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote: >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. You wrote 'white wins rather easily'... Try to convince Fisher and many others which think that this line favours black. I've been playing Vienna with white for a while and am afraid of this position.... Looking up game databases also yields results in favor of black here.... regards, Andrew
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