I'd be happy to comment more on this game...but I doesnt 28.g7+ win outright?
All in all, everything you guys have said is true. All I can say is that the Colle is good for club level play, and not very good past 2000.
That's simply not true.
I just did a search in HugeBase for Colle-Zukertort games played between players 2000+ [Both White and Black had to be above 2000 to qualify for the sample]. I found about 800 games, and White scored 58%.
And I would bet money that the average rating of the White players was slightly less than the average rating of the black players in that sample as well! That is generally the case for Colle System games.
Oh? Then I was wrong.
So the Colle is actually pretty good, if you know what you're doing. I see. It's the same as other openings... ^^
If it's any consolation, you are in pretty large company :). It is true that the c3-Colle has struggled doing better than 50% at higher levels. Unfortunately, things have become pretty dismal now that 10...h6 in the mainline has become more and more common. I'm actually looking at a radical new solution I'm hoping to publish next year as a new mainline for the c3-Colle.
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