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Subject: Re: Dutch Open Leiden after round 6

Author: Richard Pijl

Date: 12:42:31 10/20/02

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On October 20, 2002 at 15:22:41, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 20, 2002 at 14:48:53, Jeroen Noomen wrote:
>
>>Taken from www.computerschaak.nl (see laatste nieuws for more details):
>>
>>Ranking after round 6 of Open Dutch Computer Chess Championship 2002
>>No.  PNo.  Name                       Score WP    SB     PS    rat.  TPR  W-We
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  1.    1  Chess Tiger                 5.5  22.5  20.75  18.5  0000  -   0
>>  2.    5  The King                    4.5  22.0  14.50  17.5  0000  -   0
>>  3.    7  Insomniac                   4.0  23.0  13.50  16.0  0000  -   0
>>        2  Diep                        4.0  18.5  10.50  15.0  0000  -   0
>>        9  Tao                         4.0  18.5   9.00  13.0  0000  -   0
>>  6.   11  Deep Sjeng                  3.5  23.0  11.75  13.5  0000  -   0
>>        4  IsiChess                    3.5  20.0   8.50  11.5  0000  -   0
>>  8.    3  Warp                        3.0  19.0   6.00  11.0  0000  -   0
>>        6  XiniX                       3.0  16.5   5.00  11.0  0000  -   0
>> 10.   12  The Baron                   2.5  16.5   4.75   8.5  0000  -   0
>>       10  Goldbar-C                   2.5  15.5   5.25   8.0  0000  -   0
>> 12.   14  Shark                       2.0  15.5   3.50   5.5  0000  -   0
>>       13  ZZZZZZ                      2.0  15.0   2.50   6.5  0000  -   0
>>       15  31337 / Celes               2.0  14.0   2.00   4.0  0000  -   0
>> 15.    8  Ant                         1.5  15.0   1.50   7.5  0000  -   0
>> 16.   16  Djenghis                    0.5  13.5   1.00   1.0  0000  -   0
>
>I wonder what happened to Ant in that tournament.
>
>The winboard version of Ant is clearly better
>than the winboard version of Celes.
>
>It lost against the baron and celes with
>1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6 and in both games the queen came later to d8.
>
>I do not understand this opening choice.
>

I can only say what happened in the game with Baron.
Hans Secelle, the book author was operating Ant and he was checking this line of
the book constantly, especially because Baron was showing a very high positional
score that made me worry of a bug.

I don't think there is much wrong with the book line, although it would not be
my preferred choice. The problem was that Ant didn't know how to play it after
the book moves were over. The move b7-b5 (instead of e.g. h7-h6 or h7-h5) was a
complete disaster for Ant.

After the game Hans discovered that the book they were using was in fact an old
book, instead of the book he prepared for the tournament. Against Celes they
played with the new book, but because of my game with Tao (which was lost in the
most unfortunate way I can imagine) I didn't pay much attention to that game.

Richard.



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