SzG Swiss update - 1st division

[Gábor Szõts]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Gábor Szõts at 19 January 2004 07:43:16:

Hi folks,
5 rounds have been played in the 1st division. Ruffian has a one-point lead, but it is not over yet. AnMon and Francesca are in serious trouble.
There were 3 games in round 4 that are worth special attention. What they have in common is: how to lose a dead draw position. Two of them are twins: how avoiding repetition leads to defeat.
Dragon - Aristarch: At move 72 a human player would have stopped the clock, gone to the arbiter and claimed a draw saying: 'All my remaining moves will be made with the bishop, taking care that it will not be captured free. I will only make an exception when black sacrifices his rook.' Unfortunately, Dragon is a machine and he thought it was a good idea to centralize the king in the endgame...
Green Light Chess - Ruffian: GLC tried to avoid repetition, which I don't understand since he had a score of about +0.15 for several moves.
Francesca-Deep Sjeng: The same. In this case, however, Francesca had a score above 2, so her decision is at least partially understandable.
To watch these games (and the rest of course) and to see the results and standings please visit my site.
Gábor



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