Author: Dan Newman
Date: 00:28:31 02/11/00
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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 :-) > It probably would. It just plays the move that leads to the position with the largest number of games in the PGN file that I generate the book from. [I just tried it out and that's exactly what it plays :)] -Dan. >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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