Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 07:24:23 11/05/99
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On November 05, 1999 at 09:48:13, Ed Schröder wrote: >Jeroen told me it was a sharp opening, no trap or whatsoever. The opening IS the trap. one aegon tournament alexander kure played against cstal king-indian-attack. kure lost. cstal knew how to handle. there we talked about him and his ideas about this opening. The problem is if you lose control. when you trust an opening line, and within the line there is a chance for the opponent to force you to play HIS line, than the opponent brings you in a trap. example: stefan meyer kahlen had to play Ferret. he knew ferret is a strong opponent and shredder-ferret was ugly pairing. he had black. ferret 1.e4 and they made e5 not to come into sicilian. but now bruce had the choice to play italian or ruy lopez. maybe they believed he playes ruy lopez. but bruce's program played evans-gambit and suddenly black has a problem. he is IN A TRAP because he let the opponent decide which opening is on the board. what when ferret has lots of tricky evans-gambit stuff in its book ?? what when nimzo book used by quest in leiden has lots of kings-indian-stuff in its book. what if bruce knows ferret can play very good with the pawn-sac ? What if nimzo team has played out that nimzo can handle kings-indian very good and other programs not ? The problem is that tiger can only REACT but not ACT in this situation. if tiger would have thrown nimzo out of book by playing a strange move within the first 5 moves, the games could have been in balance. so it is out of balance. suddenly the opponent has the advantage. Why shall i allow the opponent to have advantage. stefan meyer kahlen could have played 1... e6 and force ferret into french or it could have played 1...c6 or even 1...d5 or 1...b6 to come into a balanced situation. >Quest won, big deal :) :-))) of course. but people misuse the standings now to suggest that quest is stronger. hm. >Ed
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