Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 01:13:21 04/26/04
Leiden ICT4 - a great tournament with a deserved winner! Thanks Theo for the perfect organization, you did a great job again, as well as the hole CSVN-team. I enjoyed the kind and friendly atmosphere in the tournament hall very much. Thanks to the sponsors, Hydra caps for all paticipants and the very nice golden ships and the price money for the winners of course. Thanks to all participants, specially to Sander who had not much time to improve his program during the last year. Congrats to Stefan for the very impressive victory of Shredder, 8 wins out of 9, wow! Congrats to Chrilly, Ulf and Erdogan with their Hydra too, even if they may be a bit disappointed. I guess there are some book issues to solve. Spending some time and to traverse the hole opening tree, analysing positions for a short while, looking for suspect lines, may be a good idea, same for me ;-) Congrats to the shared third, Perola's Ruffian and Vincent's Diep. Perola may have to take care a bit more about the nerves of his operators ;-) I guess Johan got some years older during this tournament. With only a few minutes left, taking one ply longer in an "easy move" situation... doesn't really help to relax, even in a won position. About IsiChess performance, well 5/9 sounds fine. But seeded and playing in the mid field was like jumping between strong and the "weaker" opponents. Relative easy wins against "weaker" opponents all with white. Playing stronger opponents each time with black. A book disaster against Diep, a lucky draw against Hydra. As Kurt Utzinger already pointed out, some missed drawing chances against Chess Tiger. I'll hope i may improve my rook ending evaluation a bit. I missed playing probably equal strength opponents except The Baron, like Nexus, Tao and the unlucky Deep Sjeng. Cheers, Gerd
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