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

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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