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Subject: Re: The Frenzee Report

Author: Michel Langeveld

Date: 13:40:48 01/21/03

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>Round 4: Frenzee - Nullmover
>
>What awesome power in that nullmover, white simply got outplayed. Frenzee tried
>some weird and very long exchange that ended up losing a pawn. Black couldn't
>ask for a better position:
>[D]3r3k/2r1q1pp/2n2p2/p3p3/1pQpP3/5R2/PPPB2PP/2R3K1 b - - 0 29
>
>Nullmover was searching 10-11 plies, frenzee got 13-14 here most of the time, so
>I had a feeling all was not lost. However, black proceded to win another pawn
>and I started getting real worried, basicly I couldn't believe nullmoves
>strength searching that many plies less. All I was hoping for was that white
>wouldn't trade queens, perpetual check or something seemed to be the only
>possible rescue.
>It turned out I was right, with the advanced black pawns on the king side white
>did find a repetition, but white found more than that, suddenly frenzee saw a
>win here with Ra1!
>[D] 6k1/8/1q1r1p1Q/4p1p1/1p5p/1P5P/6PK/5R2 w - - 0 64
>
>The gamed turned completely. If not lucky point then at least undeserved.

Cool review :-) And thanks for the compliments.

In this game of Nullmover I had no check extensions yet. I implemented them
during the free time I had because my opponent did (could) not show up. After
carefull testing of this change afterwards of the tournament I found out that
the checkextensions busted up the elo of nullmover with 136. It sees mates now a
lot earlier as without those ... really cool ... special thanks to Paladin.

I worked hard before and during cct 5. I slept in 3 days 8 hours and worked all
awaked hours on my program. This tournament was a lot of fun, a big motivition
and worth all the energy. The preparation and the changes during this tournament
made nullmover a total of 234 elo stronger. Something which I would never
achieve if I didn't had participated.

Thanks to the organisation, the opponents, and the other participants for the
big fun and cool atmosphere.

By the way: I test normally with a lot of Blitz games against 150 different
engines.

No we are no freaks nor nerds ...

Regards,

Michel



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