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James Tarjan vs Pal Benko
United States Championship (1975), Oberlin, OH USA, rd 3, Jun-09
Sicilian Defense: French. Alapin Variation Haag Attack (B40)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Apr-06-05  ElmerFudd: 6...Nge7 is not the most accurate. Better are both 6...Rc8 and 6...cxd4.
Apr-06-05  ElmerFudd: Now, 7.dxc5 gives White a ΒΌ of a pawn advantage. 7.Na3 is ?!
Apr-06-05  ElmerFudd: After 7.Na3?!, 7...Nf5! 8.Nc2 Qc7 9.0-0 cxd4 10.cxd4 is equal (+.13)
Apr-06-05  Shams: hey Fudd -- is this your own analysis? just wondering because of your .25 pawn plus comment.

i have no chess engine but 7.dxc5 Ng6 and white loses the e-pawn. I would prefer black, in that case.

Apr-06-05  ElmerFudd: Look deeper Shams. After 7.dxc5 (which should be the main line from this position)if 7...Ng6 follows 8.Be3 Ngxe5 9.Nxe5 Nxe5 10.0-0 Qc7 11.b4 b6 12.f4 Nc4 13.Bxc4 dxc4 14.cxb6 axb6 15.Bd4 (.25)
Apr-06-05  ElmerFudd: Only by playing 8...cxd4?! does Black allow White the advantage with 8.Nb5! (+.38)
Apr-06-05  Shams: that final position does look to slightly favor white, but it also looks improvable for black.

and it is a bit cheeky to throw out "look deeper", mister chess engine.

Apr-06-05  ElmerFudd: I do apologize if I came on "cheeky." I just finished two years exhaustively analysing the position after 6.Be2 in the Advance French. I used DeepFritz8 exclusively at depth 16 on a dual pentium machine. The book has over 8000 positions, all analyzed to that depth, and backsolved to 6.Be2. It was quite a labour of love. The book is off now with John Watson for his review.
Apr-06-05  Shams: do you mean 5.Be2, as in this game?

obviously you know a million times more than I do about these positions. it seems odd to me that white can trade his e-pawn for black's c-pawn, and have a pawn where his knight should be (on c3), and still be slightly better. the most recent games in the chessbase db have black scoring pretty well, but I didn't recognize any of the names-- probably the top players know what you know and avoid these lines with black. At any rate, I was obviously wrong and it is your own analysis, so I'll offer my apology too. Thanks for sharing your work and good luck with your book.

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