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

Author: ERIQ

Date: 09:55:52 02/26/04

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On February 26, 2004 at 09:06:08, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>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.

It should not take two hours to figure this out !! other wise I concure with all
that you stated above.

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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