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Subject: Re: Zappa looks to have a winning position over Fruit...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:23:47 08/15/05

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On August 15, 2005 at 11:51:44, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>On August 15, 2005 at 11:36:10, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>
>>Just took a look at the Zappa-Fruit game and can't believe that Fruit was not
>>expecting the kind of lame beginner's trap in the opening.  It was so
>>predictable that the Zappa team would go for 1.d4...2.Nc3...3.f3... from the
>>previous tournaments.
>
>Correct, certainly the move Bb4 should be avoided entirely in this line.
>
>Does anyone know who made the book for Fruit, or is it
>>just the stock book compiled by Dann Corbit?
>>
>>Djordje
>
>That´s the price you have to pay as a newcomer. It´s definitely not sufficient
>to have a strong engine in such tournaments.
>But Fabien rightly didn´t expect too much anyway.
>
>Michael

If the engine is strong enough it is sufficient to have strong engine.
based on the times in the pgn that I read Fruit was out of book in move 3
Unfortunately it could not find moves that are good enough.

Uri



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