Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:09:35 05/01/01
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On April 30, 2001 at 21:53:14, Robert Raese wrote: >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!! What? You think that a human is not the sneakiest animal on the planet? :)
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