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Subject: Re: Opening Preparation in CCT1

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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