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Opening 32Z: reply errors
Posted By: Timothy Chow In Response To: Opening 32Z: reply errors (Nack Ballard)
Date: Friday, 1 January 2010, at 10:19 p.m.
Nack,
Your guesses regarding the errors I see are on the mark. However, I don't think that the mathematical calculations you did fully capture what happens when I play 32Z. The calculations assume both of us play like a bot from then on. For sure, neither I nor my opponents play like that, so I do not believe that these calculations that you and Stick and David Rockwell are suggesting have that much direct relevance.
This is how I would describe my situation. My typical opponents are fairly comfortable with the kinds of games that arise after (for example) 32D-32D. They have a fairly good understanding of priming and blitzing but don't have such a good understanding of the the merits of splitting and of running. Although I sometimes play 32D, I typically play 32S. My opponents won't always split in response even when it's "obviously" correct to do so. I'm throwing in 32Z just for variety because it occasionally precipitates an immediate error, which I don't often see after 32S.
The other reason I play 32Z sometimes is that it helps myself from becoming a slave to fashion. In every strategy game, certain kinds of moves get a reputation for being "bad" when they are really not that bad. A generation later, people are playing the "bad" moves and are laughing at the previous generation (of course, at the same time they are laughing, they are confidently labeling other perfectly reasonable moves "bad"). I feel that it's important to keep one's mind flexible to avoid this trap.
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