Originally posted by CenterNutSeems to me that when you take the offered pawn you will give ChessMaster two knights in play and the ability to bring out the rest quickly. White has not started yet. Taking the pawn is risky? If you did not want a e4 game then you do not want that pawn.
hehee I dunno but chessmaster is offering us another pawn.. chessmaster has something???? he has an attack plan already???
gambit he's pawns away .. I thought somebody once said you can't teach computers sacrifice. It was in one of those space odyssey films..
5. d5xc6 (unless somebody knows why we shuoldn't)
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it looks like some kind of smith-morra gambit reversed (e4 c5, d4 cxd,
c3 dxd, Nxc3) but with both sides having an extra move to play Nf6 and a3. To have the reverse extra move Nf3 in the smith-morra is very useful, more useful than a6, but i don't think there's any choice but to accept the pawn and then follow up Nxc6 with Nc3 (taking advantage at least of black being unable to play Bb4) and then making a small centre with e3 (not e4 just yet) and getting the king of out of the centre as quickly as possible.
Originally posted by twhiteheadI agree we take the pawn if we don't black is going to be able to build strong pawn center.. I vote we take c6 and then think about getting our king safe.
I vote to take the pawn, it is a gamit to gain possition for black but not taking it will only benefit black more. However I am very surprised by blacks move as I dont think the gambit is worth the possitional advantage.
dxc6. We shouldn't be afraid to take any advantage we can against chessmaster. If we wait too long to be aggressive, then we'll regret not going for it when he tramples us. I think we can fend him off.
Plus, as was previously said, this is just like a Smith Mora gambit with reversed colors, and we've played a6 (a3 technically) already. It's perfectly acceptable to take the pawn in the Smith Mora. I don't see why we shouldn't.
I think we should take the pawn regardless of whether it was a book move. If chessmaster calculated it itself, it calculated for both us taking the pawn and not taking it. We don't know which one it thought was better but it still looks to me like a bad idea not to take it. While we dont want a super open game, giving black a big center to crush us to bits with won't help either.
I vote to take the gambited pawn...
ChessMaster has a reputation of making surprising new moves in the opening, it's not 100% computerized in this area, I must say, it does occasionally think up of something creative by itself, I have the program, so I know. A warning though, do not underestimate it's openings like this, it usually lays a lot of traps humans fall for, but with all of us voting and puting our heads together, I think we can survive this, so just take the pawn, not taking it seems even worse.