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Gareth McCaughan wrote:
> 
> "PMG" wrote:
> 
> > I thought I'd run the positions
> >
> > r1bqkbnr/pppp1ppp/8/4p3/2BnP3/5N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQK2R w KQkq - 0 4
> >
> > and
> >
> > r1bqkbnr/pppp1ppp/8/4N3/2BnP3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQK2R b KQkq - 0 4
> >
> > past Little Goliath because I think it searches deeper on my slow
> > computer, but it doesn't put scores in it's log files, and with Phalanx,
> > it was still in it's book.  Just from memory, I think LilGoliath would
> > have KtxKt, not KtxP.  But Q-Kt4 is still in 2 opening books, so I'm not
> > really sure if White dropped the ball there.  It's probably a matter of
> > who looses their nerve first. this game is way too short.
> 
> It's not a matter of who loses their nerve first. Nxe5 is
> a really weak move; after Qg5, Black is just miles better
> than White. And ...Nd4 is also poor, because if White
> doesn't make the stupid mistake of playing Nxe5 then
> Black's move is just a waste of time. After Nxd4 exd4; o-o
> (for instance), White has
>   + a useful pawn on e4
>   + a useful bishop on c4
>   + kis king tucked away by castling
>   + his KR ready to get to work, for the same reason
>   - a little awkwardness as a result of the pawn on d4
> and Black has
>   - no pieces developed
>   - a rather vulnerable kingside
>   - a pawn on d4 that will need defending
>   - doubled d-pawns.
> 
> Black won that game because White played two really
> dreadful moves. To get into the position in which White
> played the first really dreadful move, Black played
> a rather weak move, which the original poster saw fit
> to annotate with a "!". If White plays sensibly after
> Black's rather weak move, then White gets much the
> better position.
> 
> (This discussion doesn't really belong in gnu.chess, but
> never mind...)
> 
> --
> Gareth McCaughan  Gareth.McCaughan@pobox.com
> sig under construction

About it not belonging in gnu.chess, you're probably right, it probably
belongs in rec.games.chess.analysis, but, oh well, it'll help flush the
bandwidth of some of the things that _really_ don't belong here.

About the game, I had little to say about it actually, I just wanted to
poopoo the idea that this was some wonderful miracle opening.  How does
that expression go? The winner is the player who makes the second to
last mistake.  

To be quite honest, you're paying allot closer attention to this game
than I have, I really only fed it to some computer programs, I'm too
weak a Chess player to analyze it that closely.

Pete

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