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Subject: Re: SSDF(Shredder 9 UCI - Gandalf 6)A1200, 3½-½, ended 26-15

Author: Tony Hedlund

Date: 01:55:42 03/16/05

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On March 15, 2005 at 10:21:20, Günther Simon wrote:

>On March 15, 2005 at 09:57:10, Tony Hedlund wrote:
>
>>On March 15, 2005 at 09:53:04, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>
>>>On March 15, 2005 at 09:39:30, Tony Hedlund wrote:
>>>
>>>>It was 9-10. So the last 22 games was 17-5!
>>>>
>>>>Tony
>>>
>>>That is impressive. I was expecting a much closer match between the two from the
>>>results I see on ICC/FICS, and that the score was 9-10....
>>>
>>>Peter
>>
>>From the beginning they played a lot of Nimzoindian games. But Shredder changed
>>to Sicilian, and Shredder is very good at that.
>>
>>Tony
>
>Hi Tony,
>
>One player alone cannot change from NimzoIndian to Sicilian,
>because it requires a different opening move.
>Either Gandalf changed to 1.e4 without need or Shredder changed
>to 1.e4 and Gandalf played Sicilians without need.
>
>Guenther

Hi Günther,

You are of course right. What I meant was that Shredder early in the match
played 1.d4 and even 1.c4 which is very unusual. Then it switched to 1.e4 and
Gandalf often answered 1.-c5.

Tony



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