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Volodymyr Eryomenko vs Arnold Zakharchenko
Geller Memorial (2001), Odessa UKR, rd 7, Jul-09
Budapest Defense: General (A52)  ·  1-0

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Feb-21-08
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  FSR: This is the only game in the database with 5...Nc6(!), although unfortunately Black went nuts and lost. In my opinion 5...Nc6 is better than the usual 5...Bxd6, when 6.Nf3! 0-0 7.Bg5! Qe8 8.c5 Nc6 9.Qc3 Be7 10.Bxe7 Qxe7 11.e3 left White a pawn up with a playable game in Amura-Radu, Santiago 1990 (although W then played badly and lost). I think 5...Nc6 is superior because it avoids the 7.Bg5! line. Note that after 5...Nc6(!), the natural 6.Qe4+ Be6 7.dxc7? already loses to 7...Qd4! (Fritz).
Jul-13-09  muwatalli: please elaborate on the analysis of the move 7...Qd4! i only have freeware available to analyze positions and with toga 2 the position after 8.Qxd4 Nxd4 9.h3 gives white an advantage of +.51 it recommends Qxc7 or Qd1+.
thank you in advance.
Jun-13-12
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  FSR: <muwatalli> Sorry for the very belated response. I fed the position after 9.h3 into an old version of Fritz and it is, like your software, showing a small advantage for White! Maybe someone with better software at hand will take a crack at it. But at a minimum after 9.h3 the position looks a lot harder than I'd thought. I distinctly remember, though, when I first looked at this position with a version of Fritz running in the background it whipped out 7...Qd4! and showed . Strange.
Dec-04-13  fishcat: <FSR> I put Stockfish on it for a while -- after 6. Qe4+ Be6 7. dxc7 Qd4 it shows 0.80 in White's favor, 7...Qxc7 gives 0.70 in Black's favor; depth around 30 ply for both.

I'm not sure computer evaluations in the opening are really useful though.

Dec-05-13
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  FSR: <fishcat> You're right. Houdini 3 says Black is a little better after 7...Qxc7! 8.Nc3 Rd8 9.Nf3 (-0.26). Fritz 11 SE is much more bullish on Black's chances, giving 8...0-0-0 9.Nf3 as very favorable for Black (-0.78). As for 7...Qd4!?, as impressive as it looks, Houdini says White is slightly better after 8.Qxd4 Nxd4 9.h3! Bxc4 (9...Nc2+ 10.Kd2 transposes; 9...Nf6 10.Kd2! favors White) 10.hxg4 Nc2+ 11.Kd2 Nxa1 12.b3 Bxb3 13.Nc3! (stronger than 13.axb3 Nxb3+ 14.Kc2 Nxc1 15.Kxc1 Rc8=) Bxa2 14.Bb2! +0.33.

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