On Mar 26, 9:42 am, "Chess One" wrote:
Three! Three pages in the book! Four! Four pages in the book!

my statistics seem to be at odds with people's understanding of them, rather
than the book from which they are drawn - which short of quoting verbatim...
i am sure this subject could be continued, forever! pfft!~ [see Rage of the
Librarians, from last year]

pi

Well, personal attacks on IM Innes aside, I still
think it is silly to discuss the issue of Black being
OK from the perspective of an unspecified database
which apparently is of highly questionable merit.

A thoughtful discussion might begin with some
well (and honestly) annotated games, focusing on
how certain top players' results have fared with
either color. Or you could start out with a quality
database, and consider various players' results to
see if they were "OK" or not from a purely objective
standpoint.

Alternatively, we could brush the whole issue aside
and just beat up on Phil Innes, which might prove to
be a lot more fun. It's a tough choice... .

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