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Subject: Re: Opening Preparation in CCT1

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 09:35:26 02/10/00

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On February 10, 2000 at 07:59:14, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>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.

I think this is a pretty cheap strategy--it is common knowledge that TSCP has no
opening book. Isn't it weak enough as-is?

-Tom



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