Author: Tom Likens
Date: 19:39:36 01/19/03
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On January 19, 2003 at 13:53:30, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >On January 19, 2003 at 11:39:21, Sune Larsson wrote: > > >> Right. It was the whole attacking scheme that impressed - starting with >> 18.Re3! and 19.e6! Looking at the entire game, Yace really produced a >> high level attacking game. > >Sune, I am happy to read your comment. I think, Yace played this very well. >Judging from the PVs Ferret kibitzed, indeed the moves you gave an "!" were at >least a slight surprise to Ferret. Ok - this game was not won directly by the >attack. But more optimistically, I could also interprete it by: "At the right >time converted to a won endgame". > >I believe normally recent versions of Yace are rather calm (in the context of >the "attacking spirit"). It was extremely exciting to me, to watch the games. >And, what I saw until now, was ratehr pleasing, and makes me happy. Very nice >game vs. Pepito. Vs. Tao and Arasan, the same opening. Yace had a triple c-pawn. >In both cases Schroer critisized this. But in both cases, it went on well. >Perhaps it was even seen, that the triple pawn will not stay there for long. Vs. >Searcher, again I think a very uncomfortable position for Yace with the pawn >rams in the center. Again (optimistically looking at it) Yace found some >creative solution for it, and soon the center pawns of Searcher dissapeared. > >Another nice game of Yace was vs. Pepito. To me it looks, Yace made everything >well there. Schroers comment: > >"Schroer(IM)(64): Yace won with a very nicely played Minority Attack, >culminating in tactics involving the 7th rank, a passed b pawn, and a potential >pin on the h1-a8 long diagonal. Not so long ago, people openly wondered if a >computer would ever be able to play a Minority Attack!" > >really was nice to read. Such sort of comment from a strong player does not >happen often ... > >Cheers, >Dieter "very excited" Bürßner > > > >Cheers, >Dieter Hello Dieter, Congratulations on Yace's excellent showing. Maybe it's time you changed YACE's name to NJACE (Not Just Another Chess Engine :) regards, --tom
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