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On 05 Jul 2005 18:48:10 +0100 (BST), David Richerby
<davidr@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>EZoto <euclides@eznet4u.com> wrote:
>> Internet chess is becoming a joke.
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>In what way? Where do you play?
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>> You have to find someone legit to play nowadays.
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>Legit in what sense?
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>> The new clients now have premove, etc, etc.
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>So what? Premove isn't all that much use -- the last time I premoved (and
>it wasn't even a real premove; I was just hovering the piece over a square
>waiting for my opponent to move) I dropped my queen. My opponent was
>``obviously'' going to fork my king and unprotected bishop to go a piece
>up so I was premoving my king out of the way. In fact, he only wanted to
>win the exchange by forking my queen and rook.
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>> How many exchange frenches, Fried Liver attacks, colle systems and c3
>> sicilians can one take?!
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>Well, I play the Sicilian so there's no danger of having my French
>exchanged or my liver fried. Colle-like systems appear to be the 1.d4
>opening of choice in OTB chess these days and I can't say I mind people
>playing it against me online or in meatspace. And I don't get many c3
>Sicilians at all -- most people online seem to play open Sicilians or play
>2./3. Bc4.
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>Dave.
Open Sicilian? That's rare. Bc4 I have seen also on ICC and FICS.
Colle systems are common on Internet chess. Right now the trend as a
universal defense in Internet chess has been 1.....c6 against
everything instead of 1.....e6. It just gets tiring. Before I was
afraid of the sicilian najdorf or dragon in 5-0 blitz but now I'm
hoping for it just to get some exciting games when I play e4.
EZoto