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From: jperry@sri-prism@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.chess
Subject: Move 9 for Black
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Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 18:01:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 23 18:01:51 1984
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From:  jperry@sri-prism (John Perry)

     This is a critical position so i thought i'd drum up some support for
black's ninth move --- 9...Bg4.  It is the ONLY move which adequately deals
with the problem of black's queen's knight after 10 d5.  If 9...Bg4 and
10 d5 then 10...Nd4.  9...Be7 seems to ignore the issue of the knight and
seems to be based on unjustified paranoia.  Since white CANNOT force the
king file open, developing the bishop to e7 just to be able to castle is
"seeing ghosts" where there aren't any. In addition, pinning the knight
prevents white from moving it and then moving f4 which COULD pry open the
dangerous king's file.  Vote for Bg4 --- you won't regret it.