Author: James B. Shearer
Date: 00:03:44 05/04/01
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Fixing final diagram.
James B. Shearer
On May 04, 2001 at 02:58:45, James B. Shearer wrote:
>On May 02, 2001 at 23:04:05, Christophe Theron wrote:
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>>I do not want to use the kind of wild stuff I do to open the position if I'm
>>playing against a computer.
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><snip>
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>>Of course it's out of question to use this against a computer. So if the
>>position is blocked, I'm not going to take the risk to accept even a positional
>>handicap just to open it.
>
> I think you are missing the point of my post. This was not a case of
>refusing to play risky objectively inferior moves in order to open the position
>and possibly win a drawn position by confusing a human opponent. Instead it was
>a case of playing objectively inferior moves in a winning position which caused
>the position to become completely blocked and drawn.
> This was the position at move 20 after I lost my queen.
>[D]r1b1rnk1/pp4bp/2p1p1p1/2P2p2/3PpP1Q/4P3/PP4PP/RNR3K1 w - -
> This was the position at move 30, GT2 played g5
>[D]1r1rb1k1/1p4bp/p1p1p1p1/2Pn1p2/1PNPpPP1/P3P2P/R7/2R1Q1K1 w - -
> This was the position at move 92, GT2 played a5
>[D]r6r/1p3kbp/p1p1p1p1/2Pn1pPP/PP1PpP2/1K2P3/7R/4Q2R w - -
> This was the position at move 142, GT2 played h6
>[D]1r4r1/1p3kbp/p1p1p1p1/P1Pn1pPP/1P1PpP2/K3P1R1/7R/4Q3 w - -
> GT2 does not seem to realize that blocking the position is bad when
>you are up material.
> James B. Shearer
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