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Subject: Re: Dutch Open: the story of the game Fruit - Diep

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 16:22:11 11/19/05

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This "general all-out battle of opening authors" is interesting only because it
means that some people involved decided to provide some information on how they
work, or should this be called vague hints? Still quite interesting.

Yours is the first message I can't make *any* sense of. Diep won the game, so
you did the right thing per default. Full stop. Really, that's what this game is
all about :) . In case Fruit had played Kb1 it might have won instead - yeah
right, what else is new ;) ? Maybe it is even true, but does it matter?

Now if you had lost, it would make sense to look for explanations of course.
This is not maths - it is more like engineering IMHO - whatever works ..

I don't play in your league, but just an example of what I mean. Fruit-Crafty,
WCCC 2005, a book loss for poor Crafty to some extent. Virtually everything I
read about it was complete bullshit objectively IMHO. "After the silly g5 Crafty
was punished", or something like that. I don't buy that at all. But it is
besides the point to some extent. Something was wrong, because - Crafty *lost*
in the early middlegame, it's as simple as that. The engine *as are* are a given
for a book author. I personally think Fruit actually refuted 5. ... Bc5 over the
board and out of book , a well-known line up to that point. Whatever works ;) -
kudos to Pr. Dr. Marc for superior preparation :) . No joking here btw, just
smiles, I am actually very serious about it and believe it is the only approach
that makes sense objectively.

Cheers,
Peter



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