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- From: wp01jst1@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (John Tomas)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: Re: US Championship Round 14 GAMES
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- Date: 26 Dec 92 17:39:59 GMT
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- In article <34514@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> mginsbur@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Mark Ginsburg) writes:
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- >Chess question: why did Rachels refrain from the well-known
- >9. dxe6 e.p. in his game with Gulko?
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- >Didn't Petrosian lose a hideous game to Tal this way?
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- >I think 9. dxe6 Bxe6 is quite a comfortable edge for white.
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- >Comments?
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- >-mark
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- The answer to these questions is "yes." Nunn's comment on the line in
- his book *The Complete Pirc* is "It is hard to understand how 6 ... Nc6
- came to be so popular, since in most cases Black has a drab position
- with only an uphill struggle towards equality in prospect."
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- Petrosian did indeed lose very quickly to Tal in 1974 after 10 Bf4 h6?
- Nunn comments that ... h6 is just too slow and suggests instead ... Nc6
- with the aforementioned difficult struggle towards equality.
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- Interestingly, Botteril and Keene's 1973 *The Pirc Defense* only
- discusses plans involving ... c6.
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- When I used to play ... Nc6 I went with the c6 plans after a couple of
- bad experiences with ... e5. Then I gave up ... Nc6 altogether.
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- Rachels is not a professional chess player, of course, so what may be
- well-known, may not be well-known to him. The Pirc is not all that
- frequent a guest in international events, after all.
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- John Tomas
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