Author: Marc Plum
Date: 12:13:28 01/25/00
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(Time to do some snipping) >White's advantage is real, though the question as to whether or not this >advantage is winning is another altogether. The advantage is in the initiative, >and the better you are, the more tangible this advantage is as you will better >know how to administrate it, provided the opening is one in which it hasn't been >neutralized. When it has, the opening goes out of fashion. Some openings like >the Italian (Giuoco Piano) are no longer played at the top level, not because >they have been refuted, but because no way can be found to maintain the >initiative (despite Adams's repeated attempts to do so). > > Albert Silver It's interesting that you should use that example, in view of what happened today. Here is the final position from today's game between Adams and Anand, which had transposed to a Giuoco Piano. The players agreed to a draw. I hope that some GM annotator will explain why Adams (White), did not think he should at least try to win from this position. [D]3q2k1/2p3p1/7p/p2N1p2/1pPPnP2/1P1Q3P/P5PK/8 b --
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