Author: Ryan B.
Date: 02:40:06 11/13/05
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On November 13, 2005 at 05:26:56, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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 ;-) > Maybe because we dont have access to the newest Zappa. Give me 100 games and I am sure I will some weak point. >>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 > I agree, in this case I think it is an issue of king tropism. Calculating attacks on 8 squares around the king can only do so much. >>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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