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Gene!

Dude, your brother's book has a glowing review
over a ChessBase today!

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1766

-Carl

🔗monz <monz@...>

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@y...> wrote:
> Gene!
>
> Dude, your brother's book has a glowing review
> over a ChessBase today!
>
> http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1766
>
> -Carl

wow, sounds like a fantastic book. thanks for the link, Carl.

-monz

🔗Gene Ward Smith <gwsmith@...>

Thanks for this; I just got my copy Monday, since Robin sent it to
our other brother and he finally brought it by. Great stuff in there.
I was delighted to see he included Smith-Brandhorst, 13th US
Correspondence Finals, 1999-2000. It is one of the most hilariously
funny games ever played.

1 e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bb6 5.a4 a6 6.Nc3 Nf6 7.Nd5 Nxd5
8.exd5 Nd4 9.d6 Qf6 10.O-O Nxf3+ 11.Qxf3 Qxf3 12.gxf3 a5
13.b5 cxd6 14.Bb2 g5 15.d4 f6 16.Rfe1 h5 17.Rad1 h4 18.Ba3 Bc7
19.b6 Bb8 20.d5 Kd8 21.f4 1-0

Computer programs, Robin remarks, cannot see that Black is lost,
though human players see it immediately. What he doesn't say is how
he creamed Brandhorst in his humiliating way--Brandhorst, Robin
deduced, was relying on analysis from Hiarcs, and Robin used that
against him to lead him into a trap. This is a key ingredient of
Robin's play--use the use of computers and the particular program
being used by his opponents against them; or if they don't seem to be
using computers, use *that* against them.

🔗Carl Lumma <clumma@...>

> 1 e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bb6 5.a4 a6 6.Nc3 Nf6
> 7.Nd5 Nxd5 8.exd5 Nd4 9.d6 Qf6 10.O-O Nxf3+ 11.Qxf3 Qxf3
> 12.gxf3 a5 13.b5 cxd6 14.Bb2 g5 15.d4 f6 16.Rfe1 h5
> 17.Rad1 h4 18.Ba3 Bc7 19.b6 Bb8 20.d5 Kd8 21.f4 1-0

Ha! Reminds me of the last two games of Kasparov's
original encounter with Deep Blue.

Though, he who declines the Evans gambit in a
correspondence game almost deserves to lose. :)

-Carl