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Subject: Re: Opening Preparation in CCT1

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 04:59:14 02/10/00

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On February 10, 2000 at 06:57:58, Andrew Williams wrote:

>Here's a quick question: What opening preparations did other programmers make
>for CCT1? I'm interested mostly in the other "amateur" programmers, but I'd
>also like to know how/if the professionals prepared.

I made preparations for Hossa´s game in the 5th round against Shrike. Because of
the trouble with Junior and the following re-pairing this was useless because
Hossa got paired against Ferret. Therefore I voted against re-pairing. Dan,
would have Shrike played Ruy Lopez with white? Well, maybe it wasn´t useless
because the preparation is still in my book :-)

I also made some preparations against TSCP which was successful.

Hossa played a very bad opening in at least two games: vs PostModernist and
Ferret. In both games the position was already so bad that the game was
practically over. I didn´t expect to win against Ferret but at least I hoped
that Hossa would show some resistance. And against PostModernist I thought that
Hossa had a small chance to win.

>My first opportunity for a bit of book-cooking was against Shredder. PM has
>beaten Shredder (account vodka) three times on ICC, so I added these three
>games to my book to see what happened... The result was that Shredder evaded
>my "home preparation" on move one!

Actually that´s what I am doing in an excessive way because Hossa´s opening book
almost only contains self played games.

Greetings,
Steffen.



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