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Subject: Re: Leiden - Congratulations , Thanks and a Testposition

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 14:18:46 10/26/03

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On October 26, 2003 at 16:41:58, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>On October 26, 2003 at 15:47:32, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
>
>>Thanks to Theo van der Storm,
>>the CSNV-organisers, arbiters and all participants!
>>
>>A great and thrilling Dutch Open Computer Chess Tournament 2003.
>>
>>Congratulations  to the winner Ruffian and the very courageously team!
>>Perola, Djordje, Johan, Frank and Leo!
>>Good luck and all the best for the commercial career.
>>
>>Congratulations also to Johan and "The King" for the very impressive catch up
>>during the second weekend. And of course to Cristophe's Chess Tiger for the
>>third place.
>>
>>I'm rather impressed by The King's win against my IsiChess MMX in round 9.
>>The King played just 19.Bd2 with a positive score (IIRC ~0.7), leaving the
>>poisoned a3 pawn en-prise:
>>
>>[D]2r2rk1/pb3p1p/1p1bp1p1/n3N3/3P3q/P1PQ3P/B2B1PP1/R3R1K1 b - - ; am Bxa3
>>
>>Michel's Nullmover and Tony's XiniX gave me very exciting and thrilling matches
>>today with lucky wins. Puhh, if Michel makes further progress...
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Gerd
>
>
>Thanks Gerd!  Your program played some vicious chess at Leiden.  And, of course,
>Isi could have (should have...) drawn the game against Ruffian.  You wrote about
>the contempt factor -- well, things like that happen.  You scored well, and
>there is no program you can't beat.
>
>Wish you all luck in your next tournament.
>
>Djordje

Thanks Djordje for you very kind compliments!
The contempt factor was in the sense to avoid draws short after leaving the book
- without condsidering the opponent ;-)

Regards,
Gerd



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