Author: JNoomen
Date: 10:57:14 02/11/06
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On February 11, 2006 at 13:34:58, Majd Al-Ansari wrote: Hi Majd, You are right, g5! is the move. After taking on b2 Black is already in trouble. But especially h6? was very bad, after which the white knight could find a nice spot on f5. In the end it was all the same theme: Black's pieces helplessly 'doing nothing' at the queen's side, while in the meantime the white pieces kill the black king :-). Rybka's book is going fine. I am testing it at the moment, so all should be ready with the Rybka 1.2 release. Jeroen >Thanks for the game. I think taking that pawn with Queen was too dangerous. >Probably much better would have been to play g5 and then put a rook on g8 and >try to get counterplay. After taking the pawn black is too passive and has no >safe place to hide. Castling only exagerates white insecurity. > >By the way how is Rybka's book doing? > > > >On February 11, 2006 at 13:02:39, JNoomen wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>After the two postings about the Dieren 1987 tournament I have another >>interesting story to share. From the beginning of the 80's until approx. 1995, >>the godfather of the Dutch computer chess, Jan Louwman, played invitation >>matches with a team of 8-10 chess computers. Teams from Holland, playing in 1st, >>2nd or 3rd class could play against a team consisting of the strongest dedicated >>computers available at that time. >> >>Of course Jan not only had the famous Turbokits at his disposal (I believe he >>had 4 of these things!), but also a fast version of the Richard Lang programs. I >>believe these versions were playing on 20 MHz. The Dutch teams consisted >>typically of Elo 1900-2100 players. Quite strong for the computers to handle. I >>have been at many of these matches and they were always great to watch. >> >>In 1988 my own club, Apeldoorn, was giving it a try to take revenge for the 5-3 >>defeat of 1987. This was a historic match, as it was the first time the 'ROM 84 >>team' - as it was called - was playing a 1st class Dutch chess team. My fellow >>teammates were very optimistic about the result. 'These things can't play chess' >>was heared many times. >> >>But Jan Louwman was obviously not in the mood to give the Apeldoorn players an >>easy day. Not less than 5 Mephisto Almeria's were present, as well as a Mach >>III, 2 Mega IV Turbo, a Novag Super Forte Turbo and an Academy Turbo. Yes, 4 >>machines with a Turbokit! I believe Jan had a very expensive computerteam >>present at that day :-). >> >>The match was a clear win for the computers. They won 6-4, a deserved victory. >>Most memorable of this match, for myself of course, was my match against Richard >>Lang's new machine, the Almeria 68020. For the first time the modules had hash >>tables and the new dotmatrix display. >> >>Again I was presented with an exchange Slav defence and to my horror I didn't >>know Almeria's move 11 f3!?. I reacted with the tactical shot 11... Bd3, but I >>quickly faltered and suddenly there were a lot of pieces pointing at my king. I >>didn't suspect any danger, until the Almeria uncorked the brilliant 23. Qe1!! >>viciously threatening to bring her majesty over to the king's side. >> >>I thought for a very long time, came up with the move 23... Qa4, but alas: it >>was expected by the Almeria.... As soon as the operator had moved the piece on >>Almeria's board, the machine answered instantly with 24.Nxh6+!, announcing a >>mate in 7! Woops, that wasn't going as I intended..... I played on a few moves, >>before resigning. My face was turned red, redder, maybe even purple. >> >>Well, I had an easy time against the Dallas, but fair is fair: in this game >>Richard Lang got his sweet revenge.... And a very convinving one! Enjoy the >>game: >> >>[Event "ROM 84-ASG"] >>[Site "Apeldoorn"] >>[Date "1988.??.??"] >>[Round "?"] >>[White "Mephisto Almeria 68020"] >>[Black "Noomen, Jeroen"] >>[Result "1-0"] >>[ECO "D14"] >>[PlyCount "55"] >> >>1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. cxd5 cxd5 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bf4 Bf5 7. e3 e6 8. Bb5 >>Nd7 9. Qa4 Qb6 10. Nh4 Be4 11. f3 Bd3 12. Nxd5 exd5 13. Bxd3 Qxb2 14. Rb1 Bb4+ >>15. Kf1 Qc3 16. Qd1 Qa3 17. Qc2 h6 18. Rb3 Qa5 19. Nf5 O-O 20. a3 Bxa3 21. Rxb7 >>Nb4 22. Qd2 Nb6 23. Qe1 Qa4 24. Nxh6+ Kh8 25. Nxf7+ Kg8 26. Bh7+ Kxh7 27. Qh4+ >>Kg6 28. Ne5+ 1-0 >> >>Two years later, in the third attempt, Apeldoorn finally beat ROM '84 with a >>convincing 7-3. This time I could beat the Mephisto Portorose, by playing a very >>dull opening with a quick queen's exchange. But the game presented above will >>always hunt my mind....
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