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Subject: Re: A strange draw against Junior 6a

Author: Henk van Weersel

Date: 08:05:27 04/24/00

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On April 24, 2000 at 08:22:27, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>After losing 15 blitz games in a row on chess.net yesterday I sought comfort in
>a game against Junior 6a today. As it was my 100th computer game I have recorded
>in my "against a computer" database (the rest went in the recylce bin :)) it
>turned out to be a special one indeed:
>
>It was a 25' game supposed to be at the strongest settings of Junior. However
>I'm not that sure. It clearly stated so in the status bar, and *if* it was a
>handicap game (maybe a strange program glitch) it would have be an Elo 2150 game
>by Junior, as that was the last setting.
>
>It turned out to be a draw - bashing the draw button all the time until the
>tablebases told Junior it to be a real draw. So don't look at the last moves.
>
>Somehow I can't reproduce some moves, like the pawn pushing on the queenside by
>Junior, the delay in castling, an exchange at 9...Bxe3 and so on.
>
>Anyone here have any thoughts if something (and if so what) went weird in
>Junior's brain? Never had this before. It was played on DGT-board with DGT
>TopMatch clocks. Never had these kind of "problems" before (if there are
>problems).
>
DGT board ! Topmatch chess clocks! I guess Jeroen is praktizing to play in Dutch
champiognship instead of Jan Timman. Beware of him he is getting dangerous on
the chessbord.

Henk van Weersel
hvweer@westbrabant.net





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