Vortex wrote:Hetherington's Double Nested Backflip ... It's even smarter today.
Well yes, ever since Crabbit's Convention became de rigueur for tournament play, the HDNP and similar non-reversal techniques have made a lot of close-ended positions much more playable - and certainly invites less pedestrian progression in such situations. Before my time, of course.
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The advent of Billingsgate Lattice Manoeuvres and similar modern intransitive techniques does NOT mean that the older ploys have to be discarded in their entirety.
In fact, the BLM is simply an optimal configuration of the rather older Cheapside Diversion, so who can say where 'old' ends and 'new' begins?
PS My wife says that we are a load of sad techies: for TRUE style she favours the Ponsonby Gambit. A bit flowery for me - but each to their own I suppose.
The advent of Billingsgate Lattice Manoeuvres and similar modern intransitive techniques does NOT mean that the older ploys have to be discarded in their entirety.
In fact, the BLM is simply an optimal configuration of the rather older Cheapside Diversion, so who can say where 'old' ends and 'new' begins?
Err, 'runcible spoon' has always been one of my favourite terms but what it's got to do with this thread, I'll never know.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
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