Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 12:09:50 08/24/05
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On August 24, 2005 at 04:09:45, Ross Boyd wrote: >I read somewhere that Fabien wanted to emulate the 'simple' style of Capablanca. >I think he has come very close to achieving that. Its interesting, both Capa and >Fabien made it all look so easy... to players and programmers respectively. > > >BTW, to beat Fruit I must therefore make TRACE emulate Alekhine, and stop >drinking alcohol and start drinking milk. Of those three things, I believe >stopping drinking will be the biggest challenge. Hi Ross, I don't think you have to worry about the drinking. I think Alekhine was still drinking alcohol at the time he defeated Capablanca. If I recall correctly, he stopped drinking only after losing the first of his two matches against Euwe. By the way, I remember an amusing (but completely off-topic) anecdote from one of the matches between Alekhine and Bogolyubov. Bogolyubov was a strong player with an even stronger confidence, and never really understood how he could lose to Alekhine. During one of the matches, he got the absurd idea that Alekhine's secret was his habit of drinking alcohol between and during the games. In a desperate attempt to even the score, he tried to copy Alekhine's drinking habits. Amazingly, it seemed to work -- but unfortunately just for a few rounds. >Sorry, where were we? I don't remember, I'm afraid. :-) Tord
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