Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:54:13 10/28/03
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On October 28, 2003 at 06:31:35, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On October 28, 2003 at 00:01:26, Jeremiah Penery wrote: > >>So, maybe he screwed up. Big deal. The question remains why you are so worked >>up about it. > >That isn't the interesting question. Maybe he wants to chuck a spanner in the >wheels of Lokasoft or maybe it's just a reaction fueled by disappointment. Who >cares? The important question is the decision of Noomen. As someone who dabbles >with opening books on an amateur basis, it's a rather interesting discussion. >Noomen discards knowledge of weakness against 1.e4 and chooses 1.d4 instead. Is >he nervous that an amateur bookmaker is capable of finding a cure within a week? >Hardly. An attempt to sabotage Deep Sjeng in favor of Rebel and Tiger? Probably >not. > >But why not experiment? The tournament isn't that important and the championship >is around the corner. > >Regards, >Mogens And perhaps he simply thinks Sjeng plays better with 1. d4 than with 1. e4. I made the _same_ decision with Cray Blitz when we won the 1986 WCCC event. Berliner could not believe we played 1. d4 against him in the critical last round when we had _always_ played 1. e4 in the past with white. We played 1. d4 pretty much from that point forward unless our opponent was known to be significantly weaker than us...
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