Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 05:35:21 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 Is that meant as a joke? It seems Diep always played the very bad 1.Nh3 move. Michael >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? > >The games (perhaps those who are interested in the new Ruffian book might >benefit from scrutinising the lines played by Ruffe?). > >Rgds. > >Djordje >
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