Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 15:01:52 01/20/03
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On January 20, 2003 at 12:39:51, Richard Pijl wrote: >CCT5 was the first time that the Baron participated in an online tournament and >from the seeding I understood that it would be one of the large group of >outsiders. Nonetheless I was hoping for a nice result >The fourth game against Zappa seemed to be over quickly but Zappa was defending >the tactical shots Baron fired on it. I saw Baron attacking after a not so good >opening phase by Zappa. Baron sacrificed a pawn and got a major attack on the >black position and I was quite surprised (like the author of Zappa) that Zappa >survived. Remaining was a rook endgame where Baron had one pawn more. >[D]8/p2r4/2pk4/2R5/1P6/8/PKP5/8 b - - >In the game followed: 46..Rb7 47.Kb3 Rb5? 48.Rxb5 and the remaining pawn endgame >is a simple win. I'm not sure if Baron could have won after a different move in >the diagram position. Zappa as yet has very little kingsafety, and the kingsafety it had turned out to be bugged :) Half of the time it played it ended up with a king in the open - if I remember correctly this happened in its games v Baron, Tinker, and CyberPagno. It got to the point where I had to leave the room during the middlegame phase because my weak human nerves couldn't take it. The biggest lesson of the tourney for me was adding trade down code. It cost me 1/2 a point vs Baron, nearly cost me a full point vs Movei, and would have helped me out in a handful of other games as well. Needless to say Zappa does not play Rb5?? any more :) anthony
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