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Subject: Re: Great game! Congratulations! Strange choice of opening by v/d Wiel?!

Author: Jeroen Noomen

Date: 10:52:10 01/09/01

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On January 09, 2001 at 12:10:08, Dan Andersson wrote:

Hi Dan,

Actually this is one of the lines I prepared for this match. I knew John plays
the English against computers frequently and I used this line to get maximum
activity for Black.

A fact is that 6 Qa4+ counts on 6 ... Qd7 with a queen's trade, obviously what
Van der Wiel wanted. But 6 ... Bd7!? is a very interesting pawn sac and after
that move there was no way back.

I don't agree that Van der Wiel lost this game because of a bad opening choice.
I am sure he didn't expect this pawn sac to appear on the board. As it happened,
it was too late. Anyway, I am proud of the win by Rebel and happy that I finally
got some prepared lines working!

Jeroen


>I imagine that v/d Wiel must have felt confident and tried to stomp Rebel
>tactically. After the opening he was always playing catch up. I imagine that
>Rebel Century is becoming better at endgames. Rebel 10 and Century 1 have some
>really big holes in their end game knowledge. Their rook endgames: "Shudder,
>Gasp!Eeeh?". Come to think of it game 3, argh, uck!But not as bad as Rebel 10/C1
>
>Regards Dan Andersson



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