Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 14:48:49 11/04/01
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On November 04, 2001 at 15:37:33, Peter Berger wrote: >Ah, well - whatsoever: definitely not the right moment to discuss such a topic. I don't mind... In a tournament like this, it is really a team that is playing. If it were just engine-engine, we could send our .exe's to the tournament leader and get the results the day after. But that would be no fun :) The human factor is really important in such a tournaments. I didn't realize this myself until actually being there. It's really a competition between programmers and bookmakers, not programs. The operator and the book can make whole points of difference, as Bas unfortunately found out. Sometimes the face of the other operator can be very telling. They know very well what their program can and can't handle. The most interesting games are always those were the author is present. There happened so much this weekend that I unfortunately only remember a few moments. The first one was vs EEC, where I was discussing with the author how he added a 2 pawn bonus for castling because his engine lost due to not castling in the previous game. I had just explained why I thought it was dangerous (he'll give a piece to castle?) when it did actually happen on the board. Vs Gambit Tiger I saw Jeroen Noomen get a 'spiekbriefje' (little note to secretly glance at) to see what opening to play vs Sjeng. I still wonder what exactly was on it. When the endgame was nearing we (okay, Jeroen) suddenly realized white could just hit off blacks pawns and there was no black win left. At that point I had already given up hope myself, but Jeroens comment suddenly made the game into a thriller. Even more so when Gambit Tiger saw it too a few moves later. I didn't really believe the game vs The King was won until I noticed Johan De Koning was losing interest in the game. At that point, I knew he thought The King had no more swindling chances. And a few moves later, he resigned. Earlier in that game I had seen The King's score go slightly negative (-0.5) and I considered offering a draw, but, as I told Johan Havegeer, that would be really unfair to Sjeng who had been crying +2 all along :) And I'm glad i didnt :) >My most sincere congratulations for the the very good Sjeng performance in this >tournament ! Thanks! >And even more of those for Gerd Isenberg !! It seems the Berlin tournament >turned out to be a nice preparation event for him :) I have never seen anyone as happy as Gerd was today! >And also to Bas Hamstra : maybe it's really time to update that notebook for the >next tournament ;). Bas will get his revenge, I'm sure of that :) -- GCP
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