Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 11:50:32 08/20/03
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Arturo, you probably cannot know, that Peter Berger was at the tournament. Actually we met in my hotel room early in the morning before the game Shredder-Yace. We looked over several book options. I was a bit dissapointed with the opening choice of Yace in the game vs. Diep and Anacondo. Both games ended in draw, after all, so the results were ok. Also, at least in the game vs. Anaconda, the opening choice did not seem bad after later investigation - just Yace made some error. Anyway, when we sat there, I suggested Peter to look over an narrower book by Carlos. One that has more or less a minimal repertoire (for example always French). I had tested that book together with Carlos. I actually had written code especially for the McCutcheon line (earlier versions of Yace would regularily do stupid moves like Rh8-h7 in that line, because of some misconception of a "prisoned rook term" in the evaluation). Peter is a much better chess player than me. We looked over the lines, and he could see very fast, that the lines vs. Anaconda and Diep could not arrive on the board again. Well, this led to the decision, to use that small repertoire, where French McCutcheon was a very probable line. Peter can correct me, when my recollection of this is wrong. Regards, Dieter
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