Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 12:55:16 10/28/97
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On October 28, 1997 at 15:21:03, Jeroen Noomen wrote: >On October 28, 1997 at 14:30:01, Chris Whittington wrote: > >> >>On October 28, 1997 at 10:45:04, Chris Whittington wrote: >> >>> >>>results from Thorsten.... >> >>Updated later, unfortunately Thorsten was not in the hall when I spoke >>to him, there is no paper to photocopy anything - so this is from his >>memory .... >> >>> >>>CSTAl Mchess draw >>>Fritz Anmon draw !!! >>>Francesa Shredder 0-1 >>>DArk thought Technochess 1-0 >>>Aurther Stobor unknown, but by deduction 1-0 >>>SOS Woodpusher 0-1 !!! >>>XXXX kallisto draw >>>Toledo Gandalf 1-0 on time >>>Isischess Comet 0-1 >>>Capture Hydra 0-1 >>>Dragon Ananse 0-1 >>>Goliath Eugen 1-0 >>>Patzer Tiger unknown, sorry, maybe a loss by Patzer ? >>>Virtual Junior 1-0 >>> >>>Guru Crafty 0-1, surprisingly according to Thorsten. Guru suggests Guru has endgame problems since it was standing better earlier >>> >>>Nightmare TCB 0-1 >>>Ferret Diep draw >>> >> >>Tomorrow >> >>Mchess Arthur >>CSTal Junior >> >>Sorry says Thorsten, there was no paper, so no more info. >> >> >>New twist on the beer scandal: >> >>Still no beer on the Tueschen scandal - says Thorsten >>Stepan says only beer per person for wins against alphas - not one beer >>for each winning game. Thorsten is very disapointed :) >> >>Ananse says he has found and fixed a bug in his program, and there is a >>rumour that he will win tomorrow against ISichess. The ischess >>programmer is very worried and now tonight preparing against Ananse - >>all according to Thorsten. >> >> >>And on the AMD machines: >> >>AMD replaced 15 200's with 233's. But the technician came too late and >>was unable to do it accurately because of some voltage problems. For >>this reason some machines became too hot or whatever and crashed and we >>assumed that the crash of Goliath in the game against Mchess was caused >>by this hardware failure, and operator said he tried the same position >>on another machine and it worked. Goliath couldn't be fixed after three >>hours (apparently the operator was not very used to the program, and it >>is difficult to detect whether it was a hardware or software failure; so >>it was adjudicated a loss. It is said that the position runs on another >>AMD machine. >> >>Junior also had problems with his machine and has now upgraded to a new >>P2 300, starting with his game with CSTal tomorrow. >> >>Thorsten says all the people are in a good mood at the moment, they >>don't let themselves be destroyed by the technical problem. >> >>Also Franz Morsch is not happy with his opening today - it was some of >>repetition with a knight on c6-a5 repeating. Apparently the program came >>with a little minus out of book, so Fritz repeated, this despite wanting >>and expecting to win against Anmon. Big opening books don't always help. >> >> >>>Chris Whittington > > >What is happening with Fritz anyway!? Four draws and a loss, while >everybody >expected Fritz to be a contender for first place..... Does Thorsten >have more >information about this? I'll try and find out tomorrow morning. Or else Ingo (who has kindly volunteered to take on my role as of tomorrow) can get the phone passed direct to Frans and ask him straight ... Chris > >Large books are very bad in tournaments like this, IMO. The variation >you mention >could be a Two Knight's Defence, in which White plays Qb3, Black ... Na5 >and then >Qa4+, Nc6 Qb3, Na5 and so on, with a repetition of moves. I am curious >to see >this game. > >Jeroen Noomen
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