Chessmaster vs RHP

Originally posted by Jusuh
I vote for abort the game. after all, we have no chances..

It doesn't matter, the good thing about these threads are that they give the views of many and you can pick up tips from stronger players and see other players' thought processes. I'm glad one of these has been started up again, good work BlindCheesecake. I have only faced the English about twice and both times against good players who smashed me, I'm sure we'll do better here though.

My vote: 1...e5

e5

1..d6

The idea being..

1.e4 ..d6
2.d4 ..c4
3.e4 ..e5

(The last two white moves can be the other way around...)

The computer will exchange Queens (they all do it, they're dumb like that...). With the Queens exchanged the king has a nice square on c7 and is loser to the center for the end game.

1..Nf6

Current voting stands at
5 for E5
3 for Nf6
1 for C6
1 for C5
1 for E6
1 for D6

e5

Nf6. It is the most flexible, we can still continue e5, or c5 later (unless CM plays d4 in which case we havea variety of defenses).

1..Nf6

Originally posted by zebano
Nf6. It is the most flexible, we can still continue e5, or c5 later (unless CM plays d4 in which case we havea variety of defenses).

Yes Nf6 is more flexible but it doesn't stop d4. Who want to get into a queens gambit or something similar, slow positional game. Bahh, yaya looks like e5 is winning.

lets play c5 - keep it positional and let it blunder - nice theory anyway!

Originally posted by RahimK
Yes Nf6 is more flexible but it doesn't stop d4. Who want to get into a queens gambit or something similar, slow positional game. Bahh, yaya looks like e5 is winning.

Yes but if he plays d4 then we reply 2... c5! then 3. d5 b5 with an exciting game =)

I like the idea of a KID or Grünfeld!

Nf6

C5

Looks like a tie so we will have to wait a little longer, changing you vote is okay.

6 for E5
6 for Nf6
3 for C5
1 for C6
1 for E6
1 for D6