Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:14:09 01/11/01
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On January 11, 2001 at 12:12:34, Uri Blass wrote: >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. Correction not most people based on Rebel site but more expected Van der Wiel to win than to lose. Uri
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