old stuff Paris - the Kasparov game is well known of course but Qd2 is more to the point (I am not saying the Kasparov continuation is bad either).  You seem to be in some kind of denial here, use a bit of objectivity and pick a different line! We have just played a series of simple moves and you are in trouble - it is not a correspondence game, I was just trying to demonstate the dodginess of this line. My advice - check a comment earlier in the thread about the ...Nh6 stuff if you want to experiment, or else go back into KID. Your comments earlier that Black has various moves where he has "no problems" show that you have not investigated this system thoroughly yet.

Nice try! 15.Bd4 Qxd4 16.Qxd4 Bxd4 17.Rxd4 c5 

18.Rf4  Are you happy to play this position from the opening, let us assess - lots of weak pawns for Black, and a simple plan to improve the position for White (I keep my options open but in general Re1 and king to the centre). I've had a look, and you will be doing extremely well to hold it - in fact it may be technically won. So I would have to refuse your draw offer, if you want to resign thats another thing    Actually I'm surprised you chose to allow Bd4 as everything is simple now, but I suppose leaving your king in the centre is dangerous also. The whole line is extremely risky!

Just joking  Use Fritz if you like, I am playing human moves myself.

Now 15.Bd4 I continue to play simple moves as you see, seems the endgame is very nice for White, the middlegame probably even more so though.

I will castle and await 14.0-0-0 - no cheating with Fritz now 

13.Bxf5  I dont know what Fritz8 says and I can assure you I would not use a computer for picking my opening moves! I am going to play simple chess here and see where you are going to put your king    You can tell me if you are still happy after a few more moves, dont trust your books too much... especially when it comes to ropey lines like this all you have got really is an opinion at a particular point in time, nothing more.

parisestmagique wrote on 10/10/06 at 10:22:58:


I am a bit torn between promising continuations now - I like the simple line 11.Nxf5, but I think I will try something that could be even stronger - I will play 11. Nxc6 bxc6 12. Bd3.  Now I am curious how you will handle things

Ametanoitos wrote on 10/09/06 at 13:38:09:


Agreed about the difficulty to make reliability assesments due to lack of practical examples (especially at high level). The position after 5.f4 e5 6.fxe5 dxe5 7.d5 Nf6 seems like something that could come from  KID 4 pawns attack, but I am not a KID man so I could be wrong. In any case I suppose it is a question of taste which lines to allow with the move order here.