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Subject: Re: Me vs Deep Sjeng 1.5 - Amateur - Comments Wanted

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 06:06:08 02/26/04

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On February 26, 2004 at 01:51:58, Matt Thomas wrote:

>I decided to try and give myself a fighting chance and played one of the lower
>level characters in Deep Sjeng.  I probably just got lucky. I saw an awesome
>fork, of course just after I moved another piece in the game.  What do you think
>of my style of play?

You're not strong enough to have a style.

>
>[Event "I"]
>[Site "The Ivory Tower"]
>[Date "2004.02.24"]
>[Round "1"]
>[White "Matt Thomas"]
>[Black "Deep Sjeng 1.5 - Amateur"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[Opening "B27 Sicilian: Hungarian Variation"]
>
>1. Nf3 c5 2. e4 g6 3. Bc4 d6 4. O-O Bg7 5. Qe1?

I call such moves picture painting. You evidently have seen something similar
before and are copying it without understanding the idea. Optically it looks the
same, but idea wise it is not.

>Nc6 6. a3? Bg4 7. Qe3 Bxf3 8. Qxf3

White has made 2 redundant moves (Qe1 and Qe3) to accomplish this recapture with
his most powerful piece. Not good.

>e6 9. Ra2?

An extravagance that takes a natural retreat square from the Bc4.

>Nd4 10. Qd3 h6? 11. c3? Nc6 12. b4 cxb4 13. axb4 Nge7 14. Na3 O-O 15. h4 Ne5 16.
>Qe3 Nxc4
>17. Nxc4 a6? 18. d4 Qd7? 19. b5? Qxb5 20. Nxd6 Qd7 21. e5 Nf5 22. Qf4 Nxd6 23. exd6
>Rfc8
>24. Bd2 a5? 25. h5 gxh5 26. Qg3 Kh8 27. Re1 a4? 28. Re5? Bxe5?

28...Qxd6 wins.

>29. Qxe5+ Kh7 30. Qf6
>Kg8 31. Bxh6
>Qxd6 32. Qg7# 1-0

You should annotate this game in detail (spend 2 hours at least) by yourself
without the aid of a computer program, then go over your annotations with the
help of Sjeng on a normal setting. I've peppered the game score with "?", which
you can ignore or use as hints if you wish. This will be more helpful to you
than posting it on the internet and asking, "What do you think of my style of
play?"



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