that doesnt mean you are a crap player Paul,that simply can mean you play against also strong player...or maybe if some of them arent strong players,sometimes weaker players can play very strong

i remember one game that Jaan Eslon played and lost against a very weak player,and he lost...and was in a OTB tournament,not correspondence,and was a lot of time ago(no cheats with computers),and against a 'boy' not aged more than 14-15 years,without ELO

well,when someone plays strong,people try to win him,and punish him even more,compared to a weaker player

Against a fianchetto system, Black has many options, but so does White.  Generally the positions do not become critical until the late opening.  Play the best moves and pose as many problems as possible for your opponent and the results will work out.

I seem to be having those bad nights more often these days.

One thing for sure Paul you are one of the best CC around no doubt about that.

why you dont try King Gambit? 

seems that Vas busted it

just joking Paul

i havent a very powerful book,but why you dont try to analize any gambit?that isnt a joke,im telling true

Generally, you're best off finding new ideas in main line positions.  It helps if you know the history of the variation, how it evolved; some ideas are misassessed or forgotten.  And it is increasingly difficult to find a completely original concept before move 15.  Often times when an opponent makes a second-rate move, that may give you more leverage to find a creative and plausible idea.  Not to mention hypermodern prophylactic ways of playing positions as I did against you Paul, but obviously these entail more risk, you have to know how to transition to other structures or play into a somewhat worse position than normal.  I've had no problems finding new and stout ideas in well established positions, even in well established lines that have been played for decades, yet generally the more an opening has been played, the deeper you have to look.  In some lines things begin to branch out around move 12, and then you find new and less developed ideas, in any system.  In corr, you are guaranteed a game of chess unless if you have Black and you play main lines --- which means that White can force things to a draw given he can thread his way through theory and the middlegame ---- to play for a win as Black, basically you have to play a position in the Modern defenses.  You just have to know the ideas for both sides, and what positions are equal, and which ones there is still play... There exist many 'equal' positions that are quite dynamically balanced and far from simple.

Really the problem points for White playing 1 e4 in current theory is B90 Najdorf, Petroff, Marshall, and the Berlin is really complicated and nuanced, but this is typical of the Spanish game.  And in this tournament ppipper's French.  Yet I am sure there are ideas in all of these because I have found some, of those lines though, the Petroff I think the hardest to find new ideas because it is difficult to play for advantage in position with one open file.

How I read the above comment is "you need a really big book to come up with seldom-tried ideas."

Are you aware that you played almost this exact opening line before? You were white in that game, but played the black side of this line.

Hey, I don't use it either, but I am not a correspondence player!

As for Houdini, it isn't Houdini per se as much as the current crop of top engines.  Whatever engines you use are vastly stronger than those of four or five years ago.