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Subject: Re: Diep as a strong sparring opponent (longish)?

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 05:31:04 10/13/03

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On October 13, 2003 at 08:16:20, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>Hi,
>
>while preparing the opening book for Ruffian I decided to use a very good
>positional program for Ruffe's sparring partner.  I decided on Diep due to its
>impressive positional play.  Diep also has an interesting and unorthodox opening
>book with lots of lines that are worth analysing.  No small wonder, the book's
>creator is a super strong Fide Master, the author of Diep:  Vincent Diepeveen.
>
>Be it as it may, I matched Ruffian with only a skeleton of the book to be
>(meagre 1538 positions for starters) and pitted the positional monster against
>the fast searcher.   The result was a little disappointing and I must say that I
>did not learn much from the match.  Of course, bear in mind that these were only
>G/5 games, but still...
>
>Diep had its own rather well researched book, with many home cooked tricks and
>traps, while Ruffian was equipped with a wee book that is to grow yet.  Diep had
>the advantage of a Barton 2800+ while Ruffian played on my old NetVista PIII-933
>computer.
>
>End result:  Ruffian 86%, Diep 14%, or 48-8!!  My question is:  could the
>reigning leader of the SSDF beat Diep more convincingly than Ruffian?

Two things come to mind:

1. I didn't look at all the games, but it looks like Diep opened every game 1.
Nh3??

2. Diep is more designed for longer time controls.  I remember Vincent
complaining last CCT about how 60 10 was too short ;)

anthony



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