Author: Peter Berger
Date: 15:35:00 08/20/03
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On August 20, 2003 at 14:50:32, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >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 Little to add - maybe only that the book prepared by Carlos finally used was a pretty old one - and that there was extremely little consideration of the opponent, it could have been Shredder, Fritz, Brutus or anybody - the discussion was extremely Yace-centered. So I positively know that this was not some cooked up line to catch Shredder. That Yace plays reasonably well in the Mac-Cutcheon is the work of Dieter and Carlos, no doubt. But I still think that Yace just outplayed Shredder in the endgame after a fair but not great opening and that the opening was of very little importance for the game result , as superficial this analysis may sound. Regards, Peter
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