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Subject: Re: Opening Preparation in CCT1

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 10:39:56 02/10/00

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On February 10, 2000 at 12:35:26, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>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?

My first test blitz game ended in a draw. I played at fix depth 6 and assumed
that tscp would think deeper in the tournament which is prob. right.

Greetings,
Steffen.




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