Author: Robert Raese
Date: 18:53:14 04/30/01
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On April 30, 2001 at 13:26:34, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Bert Gower and I (along with several others) started >a chess club tournament many years ago. We had an odd number of players, so >we elected to include Bert's Super Constellation to round out the event and >avoid any byes. > >I had played this thing many times and could simply crush it at will, because >it was very aggressive but it didn't know anything about endgames, nor about >kingside attacks, and so forth. In fact, I had noticed one particularly bad >point where it would sacrifice a piece for what it thought was a good attack, >but it could never win against me with that line. I decided to try it in my >game vs the SuperCon, and by move 20 I was a piece up, and by move 35 the game >was over. Bert was paired against it a couple of rounds later and he followed >my game exactly and won easily. The best player in our club was rated just over >2200 and he played it and lost, not knowing about my "busted line". When we >showed him, he was pissed as I won the tournament and Bert finished second. LOL!!
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