From: caveney@wwa.com (Geoffrey E. Caveney)
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Subject: Re: Ruy Lopez Exchange Variation
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Izya Yagolnitser (vigor@netcom.com) wrote:
: MSBurkett wrote:
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: > I made my first master rating with h5! and have, to date lost only one
: >game in : > many, many games. Fischer was wrong, Wrong, WRONG here. If
: >Black follows the : > right plan, White must struggle to draw- a case
: >of authority being a bad : > source.  : >
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: If, however, you played 5...Bg4 after 4...dxc6, would you care to share
:some of : your games?As I indicated here before, most of my knowledge on
:the variation comes : from Soltis' book on the Exchange variation and I
:tend to agree that White has no : difficulties whatsoever getting an
:advantage after 6. h3 h5! Most of the games will : end up in a draw if
:Black defends carefully, but there is no way White has to : struggle for
:it. Fischer or no Fischer, the 6. h3 h5 attack for Black has no bite and
:does not take a genius to learn not to fall into a few traps here and
:there. I : won a few games against players of my rating or higher with 6.
:h3 h5, but only once : for each player in each trap, Rxh2 being most
:unexpected, but every one of them : simply picked up a book, read a few
:pages and never fell for it again, forcing me : to fight an inferior
:endgame struggling for a draw. I play the Exchange very often.  : In fact
:you are guaranteed to get it every time so long as you play 1.e4, 2.Nf3,
:3.Bb5, and 4.Bxc6 : These days I mostly play 5...f6 and 6...exd4 not
:counting on what I call a "cheap : trick" 5...Bg4, 6...h5! 
  Max posted his re-appraisal of the main lines here a while back. You
know the "Rxh2" trap, book after that is Qxg4!, now Max suggests Qh4; Qxh4
Rxh4; Nf3 Rh5 is *not* the White advantage every book says it is. after c3
he suggests exd4; cxd4 Bb4; Rd1 0-0-0 = with winning chances if White
missteps. after dxe5 Nxe5; Nxe5 Bxe5; c3 0-0-0; g3 Bf6! he considers it
equal or =/+. I agree but think 19.g3 was a mistake. White should play
19.Be3 so after 19...Bf6 he can play 20.Rad1 and if 20...Rb5 (one idea
behind ...Bf6) 21.Bc1! without shutting his rook in. If Black doubles on
the h-file White can basically run his king to e2. It's a dodgy position:
White has the k-side majority but has trouble exchanging off the rooks in
order to be able to advance the pawns; Black can plant a rook on h2 but it
doesn't do much. Probably the most patient player will win.
Jeff
  
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