Author: GOYON Olivier
Date: 08:13:54 11/06/97
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On November 05, 1997 at 18:31:11, Marc-Francois Baudot wrote: >On November 05, 1997 at 15:08:08, Thorsten Czub wrote: > > >>An amazing game. I was very down after 48.Rce8. On the other side of >>the board sat the virtual operator and was grinning. I could have >>killed him in this special moment. > >If I remember Correctly, Pascal Tang was operating at this time of the >game. >I was still angry with the previous games, when Virtual Chess played a >Benoni to Shredder. It did not have the benoni in its tournament book, >so something >was wrong! Then after the game against Tal, Pascal discovered that the >shortcut >used to launch Virtual Chess (using shortcuts was not a smart move >anyway) pointed to a demo version, with a demo >book. The machine had been used as a demo machine for thursday's party, >which I was not aware of before the games against Shredder and Tal, and >a demo >exe file left on the disk, with the shortcut changed... As you might >understand, >this did not make me feel very happy...I also could have killed >somebody... I could easily imagine ... Does it means that only the book was different or even the program was different ? How many points lost due to that "mistake" ? I suppose that you cannot really answer to this, but do you think that it cost you the game against Shredder ? However I am very proud of the french results in the tournament ! Olivier > >Marc-Francois
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