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Subject: Re: Virtual2 - Chess System Tal - draw or win ?

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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