Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 12:13:52 10/25/04
After the message on the first weekend, a report of the second weekend is inevitable :-) The first game of the second weekend was scheduled to be a tough match against Diep. The difference in used hardware was quite big. Fortunately for the Baron, the opening was very quiet, without much risks for white. Vincent was not happy as he wanted/expected to win, so the opening choice of the Baron didn't really help. But as the game progressed, the Baron slowly managed to get the advantage and win the game. This was one of the best games of the Baron in the tournament. After beating the number 2 of the intermediate standing, the next round the opponent was Pro Deo. This time the Baron had a bad opening choice and didn't understand what it had to do. Pro Deo won that game convincingly. In round 9 the Baron played Neurosis. As Stan already pointed out in his post, the attack of Neurosis didn't have much body and the Baron took over and won the game. The participants dinner in the evening was now an opportunity to celebrate the Baron's highest ever position during the Dutch open. It was occupying the fourth place. At that time the tournament should have ended :-) The next day two more difficult opponents were picked for the Baron. First Nexus, that had a great tournament. During the middle game Nexus had acquired clear advantage, but didn't manage to win the game immediately. The Baron grabbed an open e-file and had the opportunity to draw the game. Unfortunately (for me, and with hind sight probably also Pro Deo) the Baron blew it, and blocked/captured Nexus' passer with the wrong piece and lost. The last round started with a major delay as the software could not produce an acceptable pairing. With a major delay the Baron played a game against Deep Sjeng, which was practically drawn after leaving the opening book. As it was already clear that SB points would be very important to the leaders we continued playing until it was clear there was really nothing that either side could do to win. The resulting 9th place (out of 14 participant) does not sound very great, but it is clear that this was one of the closest tournaments I've participated in. For those that managed to read all of this, there's another surprise. I've prepared a download of the single CPU version of the Baron at the Baron's Lair: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/richard.pijl] This is the version that played the second weekend of the Dutch Open. The FRC version will be made available next week, to reduce the amount of traffic on my site. bye, Richard.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.