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Subject: Re: You said _what_ Bob ?

Author: Jeroen Noomen

Date: 05:50:22 08/23/01

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On August 23, 2001 at 05:40:53, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

Hey,

Don't make a fool out of Bob, please. Michel Langeveld, who is
operating Crafty in Maastricht, did some preparations for Quest
and didn't count on this line. He played 1 Nc3, but somehow it
became a Sicilian.

Besides, it was certainly not a 'dead lost sicilian' line.

Jeroen



>Hahahaha!
>
>For those who missed it, see the thread below:
>
>>On August 20, 2001 at 21:49:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>One thing I can guarantee you, you will _not_ see a dead lost sicilian
>>>opening by crafty.  Absolutely 0.000000000 chance of that happening again.
>>>
>>>:)
>>
>>Think so? There are several things that can go wrong.
>>
>>a) bug in book code
>>b) operator error
>>c) late transposition
>>
>>Murphy will someday come and hunt you, Bob.
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>
>I can guarantee you that there is no bug that is going to cause it to play
>1. e4 as white.  :)  And should black try something cute like 1. d4 c5, we
>aren't going to try to transpose with Nf3 or anything like that either.  :)
>
>No chance.  Our book isn't ridiculously wide, but at least we are going to
>avoid the known bashes from London.  One day it will play those lines just
>fine, when I have time to tune it better.  For the present, we go by the
>philosophy "if you can't get it off your shoe, don't step in it."
>
>:)
>
>--
>GCP



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