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Subject: Re: Opening Survey of Utzinger's NBE 2003

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 00:41:00 10/25/03

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On October 25, 2003 at 00:57:55, Pierre Chevalier wrote:

>Utzinger's NBE 2003 tournament is being played without opening books.
>Here is a survey of what the programs chose to do in the 1 e4 section.
>Choice as Black:
>Fritz 8 plays Petroff always.
>Junior 8 plays Sicilian always.
>King 323 plays French always.
>List 504 plays Scandinavian always.
>Shredder 704 plays Petroff always.
>Tiger 15 plays Petroff always.
>In the games of Hiarcs 8 and 9 after 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 :
>List and Junior chose Scotch.
>King and Shredder chose Ruy Lopez Exchange.
>Head to Head was Two Knights
>Tiger and Fritz go Two Knights
>except one Giuoco Piano chosen in Tiger--Hiarcs 9.
>In the 1 d4 section the openings were not theoretically critical but here they
>are.

     Interesting survey. Many thanks for your work.
     What do you mean by: the e4-openings were critical.
     Kurt



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