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Subject: Re: A draw against several programs at 40/2 by me!

Author: Owen Lyne

Date: 02:28:16 12/14/99

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On December 13, 1999 at 17:13:51, Charles Unruh wrote:

>1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4 Bg7 5.Nf3 c5 6.Bb5 Bd7 7.e5 Ng4 8.e6 fxe6 9.Ng5
>Bxb5 10.Nxe6 Bxd4 11.NxQ Bf2+ 12. Kd2 Be3  forced draw by repetition.  Why did i
>get this draw?  I never played the program actually it never left the book.  I
>drew CM5500(this line is corrected out of 6000), Fritz and H7.  So i actually
>just drew the author of the book :).

Yeah - this is all theory. I've played the Black side of it in a real,
over the board match. If you check the databases you'll see GM's playing
it every now and then. Indeed, there are various short draws that get played
and played. As Black, if White is content with a draw, it can be hard to
avoid, without accepting a disadvantage.

John Nunn covers this line in some of his Pirc books, White clearly has
to try something else on move 10 if he doesn't want to draw. As for Black, if
he wants to avoid this he can try 8. ... Bxb5, but after that he has little
choice.

Owen



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