Author: martin fierz
Date: 11:46:53 03/30/02
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On March 30, 2002 at 12:07:48, Sune Larsson wrote: >Since Emanuel is back from abroad tournaments, he now wants to play some >serious games vs a top program. As before these games are thought as >pure training games for Emanuel. They will be played under strict >tournament conditions with chessboard, clock and scoresheet. 2 hours >per player and game. First game is schedueled Friday 5/4. >The last match ended 2.5-1.5 in favour of Emanuel vs Gambit Tiger 2.0. >We hope for more games this time since he is free from tournament play >at least two months. > >Emanuel's trip to Bermudas gave him his first GM-norm, by finishing 2nd >in the closed tournament. He followed this up by then winning the Bermuda >open, ahead of a.o. US players Larry Christiansen, Soltis, Nakamura, Shahade >and Perelshteyn. > >Also in Reykjavik things looked very good when Emanuel only needed 1 point >in the two last rounds, to get his 2nd GM-norm. He blew it that time due to >lack of opening preparation and much too hazardous play. As a curiosity I >can mention that he has never offered his opponent a draw in any game. >Peaceful draws aren't exactly this man's liquor... ;-) Emanuel hasn't >studied much from books so he litterally improves by every game played. > >The computer opponent isn't chosen yet but we hope for a newer version >of Chess Tiger. I'm still awaiting response from Christophe. This for several >reasons: It would be a sort of revenge match for a stronger Tiger - it would >be intresting to know if Emanuel can sense any differences compared to the >old version - furthermore I have the idea that a new Tiger just might prove >to be the toughest opposition possible right now. > >If for some reason Christophe isn't ready for this, we'll probably go for >Fritz 7.006. In any case I'm looking forward to some exciting games. > >As far as publicity, it's up to Emanuel - but it looks like he has loosened >up quite a bit with this issue. I think the whole games can be publiced, >except should there be a specific novelty tried in the opening. In that case >we can show the game from somewhere in the middlegame and on. > >Sune this is great! from the last 4 games you could see that emanuel was not frightened at all and played "normal" chess against the tiger, and even won. i think sometimes humans play anticompter style, although they don't really know how (e.g. gulko in his first games as black), and then they get beaten even worse than if they had tried for a normal game. i'm looking forward to seeing these games! aloha martin
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