Underestimated openings

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Today I studied openings with official Rybka 4 evaluations. Many surprises for me and it starts already at the very 1st ply:Tongue out 1.Nc3 has +0.07 as good as English opening and 1.e3 has +0.04 as good as King's Indian attack.Cool

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it probably gets those numbers because Nc3 is highly transitional. What really matters number wise is what the opening ends up becoming after the first few moves.

e3 though, has just always struck me as being too passive and non-commital; but that is just my opinion.

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Teary_Oberon wrote:

it probably gets those numbers because Nc3 is highly transitional. What really matters number wise is what the opening ends up becoming after the first few moves.


 Hmm ... yeah, right, I'm planning to look at that now.Cool

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Yes, indeed, the best lines after 1.Nc3 correspond to KP and QP games.

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Fezzik: not even an iota? LoL ... and I naively thought about alpha and omega.Laughing

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Teary_Oberon wrote:

e3 though, has just always struck me as being too passive and non-commital; but that is just my opinion.


This van't Kruijs seems to give interesting games and it deserves a special thread.Laughing