Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 02:26:56 11/13/05
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On November 13, 2005 at 04:57:19, Marc Lacrosse wrote: >If Fruit cannot >manage to win its three remaining games this tournament will be a real black >stone in Fruit's garden. Might be a bit of bad luck, might be the opponents starting to put their fingers on Fruit's weaknesses. The game against Diep was probably not a coincidence, Vincent can see these kind of things very well. The same happened in the WCCC btw. >At the opposite, Zappa's comeback is a near-perfect demonstration. Yup. The World Champion is confirming his status. We'll have to see if this keeps up, but my impression is that Zappa, unlike Fruit, has no known weak points. Especially so if it's running on a 4 cpu machine ;-) >3. Zappa-Fruit is a well-deserved win for Zappa. Fruit went on in a difficult >defensive position. At move 12, Fruit opted for the passive 12...e6 although >12...Qb6 has had better practical results in human master games recently. >[D] r2q1rk1/1p1n1ppp/2p1p1b1/p7/Pb1PP3/2N1BP2/1P2B1PP/R2Q1RK1 w >Here Zappa's 15.Rc1 was a good new move after which Fruit's 15...Qc7 goes >directly into problems on the c file. After that 16...Rad8 was mandatory to >avoid d5 but fruit played another dubious move (16...Rfe8) and Zappa did not >miss the opportunity to take a clear positional and soon material advantage with >17.d5! >I do not know where was the end of Fruit's prepared book line in this game but >it clearly led to a difficult position where fruit was not able to find its way. I think Qc7 was the first move out of book, with Fruit showing white up 0.7. >4. Fruit-Diep is another example of questionable book choice. I have had dozens >of private games where Fruit did not find the good balance between timed >agression on the king-side and necessary defensive measures on the queen side in >such opposite-castling sicilian positions. I think it is extremely dangerous to >venture with fruit in such positions against first-class opponents. I think small improvements in the program would give much better results than fixing the book (for this particular problem). It took Bob a few years and 20 Crafty versions to realize this :-P >6. But Fruit has also already had good games with good opening preparation. >Against ProDeo Fruit went for an early highly speculative exchange sacrifice: >[D] r1bq1rk1/ppp3bp/2np2p1/1B2pp1n/4P3/2PP1N2/PP3PPP/R1BQRNK1 w >Here the play continued with 10.Bg5 Bf6 11.Bh6 after which Fruit's strange 11... >fxe4 12.Bxf8 exf3 13.Bh6 fxg2 14.Ne3 Ne7 led to a difficult to evaluate position >where Fruit prettily outplayed its opponent. If this was prepared, then this was >genial opening prep perfectly tailored to Fruit's qualities. Hmm, it was a Jeroen vs. Jeroen opening, and he generally aims for equal positions with lots of play in those cases. But his book is big and his memory is not perfect, I guess. Or maybe something else happened, I'm sure he'll clarify. -- GCP
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