Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:12:34 01/11/01
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On January 11, 2001 at 11:39:51, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On January 11, 2001 at 11:04:12, Jeroen Noomen wrote: > >>On January 11, 2001 at 10:55:49, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >> >>Hi José, >> >>Thanks for your congratulations! Today was a tough game, with Van der Wiel >>playing an anti computer line I expected. I bet he could have done better >>somewhere. In the end Rebel was winning, but a few moves earlier Van der Wiel >>had refused a draw. I think a draw is a fair result, though. >> >>Jeroen > >Congratulations to the Rebel team for their victory on John v/d Wiel, >John proved to be a tough opponent and i'm sure that you'll not complain >winning this tough match! > >Only 1 point for free, and from human perspective that isn't much as usually >2700 players and especially a 2800 players give much more presents as >v/d Wiel did this 6 game match! > >Not to mention the way he setted up most games was really tough for >chessprograms as we all have been able to analyze at home! > >Nevertheless also congratulations to v/d Wiel as everyone except me >expected him to lose this match and 3.5-2.5 is a very good result >which for the future is promising of course. Not everyone expected Van der Wiel to lose the match. I expected a draw 3-3 before the match and most people expected Van der Wiel to win based on the predictions in the Rebel site. Uri
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