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Sicilian Dragon 9.Bc4 or 9.O-O-O ?
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Sep 10, 2020
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No one denies tha top GMs use engines extensively in their opening preparation. But not the way you’re suggesting we should use them. They don’t just look up what the engine prefers on move 9 and go with that.
play 0-0-0 then Qe1!?
When the world best 2 players (Stockfish and Leela ) agreed 9. O-O-O together, it is the answer!
How do you get that GUI interface? And how do you read what it evaluates for 9.Bc4 ?
And I thought engines were supposed to not be relied on for opening analysis.
The GUI is Arena, and yes, it is quite apparent that engine evaluations at that stage of the game are completely useless. From that position there are hundreds of thousands of games, dozens of thousands of modern correspondence games, and (if someone trusts engine aided games that much) some 6,000 high level correspondence games played in the last 10 years.
Browsing any set of the above games is one hundred thousand times more infomative than the clumsy engine dump that drmrboss has posted.
So which is objectively better, 9.Bc4 or 9.O-O-O ?
I have posted engine's first line already, which is 0-0-0. This is how a top players prepare by route.
It is up to you, whatever you choose, 2500 rated human's choice from old traditional books or 3600 rated engines's choice.