Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 15:45:53 01/09/01
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On January 09, 2001 at 13:56:43, Jeroen Noomen wrote: >On January 09, 2001 at 12:00:09, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >Vincent, > >>To my big surprise he opened this day with a line that's completely >>in the computer street. > >I disagree! I counted on the English and John counted on 6 ... Qd7. He wanted a >clear line without queen's, but was surprised by the pawn sac 6 ... Bd7!? > >Normally when John plays the English agaist a computer he can make moves like >c4, g3, Nc3, e3, Nge2, 0-0, a3, Rb1, b4 and so on. With 2 ... Nf6 and 3 ... d5! >I prevented this. After that Black is active and after 6 ... Bd7!? there was no >way back. I'm not arguing your preparation. Your preparation was obviously fine with the Bd7 sacrafice. And that it worked out fine was also obviously. Everyone knows english can be very aggressive countered by black. That this has to be done with a quick d5 is also obvious. Of course the also aggressive but more closed answer 1...e5 is not an option. Maroczy is not an option for any program with black till we have a database of 10^40. So 1..c5 is not an option either. What i play after 1.c4 the move 1..c6 is not an option either as with b3 g3 you close the position too. So i wonder what John planned to get at his board. probably he only planned 1.c4 when sitting behind the board. The first game he also played something which i have never seen on his board before. Actually quite soon during that game i planned to go home as it was obvious that Rebel was longer in book as John, which is kind of weird. Note John had a plausible explanation for it: "my normal openingsrepertoire doesn't work versus computers". Now when having the black colors i agree with him on that, but with white he sure can play his normal tournament preparation! >>Big tactics everywhere, and of course mankind >>gets exhausted then, that he then loses an endgame with a pawn >>less, probably somewhere missing a draw here or there that's no >>big surprise then... >The opening worked, John had to defend, Rebel was pushing and was very active, >Ed rightly refused a draw offer and after some final mistakes the machine won. >Deservedly so! >Jeroen
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