Author: David Blackman
Date: 04:36:08 12/31/99
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On December 31, 1999 at 01:24:40, James Robertson wrote: >I have to say, Russek sucks in the opening.... > >James Maybe it's not that great an opening objectively, but i think it has reasonable chances against an opponent who doesn't know it very well (ie. anyone who hasn't guessed you're going to play it). Especially if white is going to castle into it. Black has some fairly obvious plans here, and white has a few chances to go wrong. This may be a better practical approach than playing 25 moves of Scheveningen Sicilian theory that the computer has memorised better than you have, and then landing in a tactical mess. And in fact there have been GM games won with similar variations (not sure about this exact move order though). >On December 30, 1999 at 23:41:30, Peter McKenzie wrote: > >>[White "*RebelCentury"] >>[Black "*Russek"] >>1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Qd5 5. Bd3 Nf6 6. Nxf6+ gxf6 7. Nf3 >>Rg8 8. Bf4 Bd6 9. Bg3 b6 10. Bxh7 Rh8 11. Bd3 Bxg3 12. fxg3 Bb7 13. c4 Qh5 >>14. O-O Nd7 15. Nh4 Qh6 16. Qc1 Qg7 17. Qf4 f5 18. Nxf5 exf5 19. Rae1+ Kd8 BTW Desperado likes 14 Qe2 at ply 8 and 9 (deep as it got) and doesn't like 14 O-O at any depth. But this version is very experimental and probably weak.
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