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

Author: Ernst Walet

Date: 01:24:15 10/27/03

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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.
>

Indeed a great achievement by The King.  It played (to my best of knowledge) on
the slowest hardware.  Futhermore, due to some circumstances, in the last round
it played without book but still won the game.

Congratulations, Johan.

Ernst.

>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



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