I recently received an email from Garry Gifford, editor of the Unorthodox Openings Newsletter and co-author (along with Davide Rozzoni and Bill Wall) of Winning with the Krazy Kat and Old Hippo. Nowadays, Gary is doing well with the New Hippo as well as the Krazy Kat
Marty [Martin Frère Hillyer, author of Thomas Frère and the Brotherhood of Chess: A History of 19th Century Chess in New York City] and a few club guys took me to the Marshall Club in NY as a going away present (I am moving to Austin).
I played the Krazy Kat against a 2098 player. I took a drawing line, but later realized I had a forced win! [International Master] Calvin Blocker verified that for me last week... though I already knew.
I also use the Krazy Kat in round 4 to defeat a psycologist in just 18 moves.
I used a modern Hippo on Saturday to defeat Marty's Colle....
A few words about Austin, Texas, by the way: when you are in town and hungry, check out the legendary Torchy's Tacos... It's also hard not to mention that in a Christmas-time tag-team match between two of the "Kennedy Kids" (known as they made their way from Houston to Austin as "the locusts") and The Salt Lick all-you-can-eat Bar-B-Que restaurant, the visitors were held to a draw ("Pack the rest up. We'll have it for breakfast...")
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Gary shared his "short Krazy Kat played in round 4 against the psychologist" and I fed it to Rybka to "blundercheck" at 5 minutes a move. The result?
[Event "Marshall Chess Club Open"]
[Site "NY"]
[Date "2010.03.20"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Pudol, Eric"]
[Black "Gifford, Gary"]
[Result "0-1"]
[PlyCount "36"]
[EventDate "2010.??.??"]
1.e4 Nh6 2.d4 g6
{last book move}
3.c4 d6 4.f3 f6 5.Nc3 Nf7 6.Be3 Bg7 7.Bd3 O-O 8.Qc2 e5 9.Nge2 Nc6 10.a3 f5 11.d5 Nd4 12.Bxd4
({-0.98 Rybka 3 Human 32-bit :} 12.Qd1 f4 13.Bf2 Qg5 14.Kf1 c5 15.h4 Qh5 16.Kg1 Bd7 17.Rb1 b6 18.Rh2 Rfd8 19.Kh1 a6 {[%eval -18,18]})
12... exd4 13.Nd1 Ne5 14.Nf2 c5
({-0.39 Rybka 3 Human 32-bit :} 14... Qg5 15.Kf1 Qe3 16.Rd1 fxe4 17.Bxe4 d3 18.Rxd3 Nxd3 19.Qxd3 Qxd3 {[%eval -139,16]})
15.f4
({ -2.25 Rybka 3 Human 32-bit :} 15.O-O fxe4 16.Bxe4 Bh6 17.Kh1 Bd7 18.b4 Qe7 19.bxc5 dxc5 20.Rab1 Rab8 21.Bd3 b6 {[%eval -39,17]})
15... Nxd3+ 16.Qxd3 fxe4 17.Qxe4
({-6.09 Rybka 3 Human 32-bit :} 17.Nxe4 Qh4+ 18. N2g3 Bh6 19.O-O-O Bxf4+ 20.Kb1 Bd7 21.Ka2 Rae8 22.Qb3 Rb8 23.a4 Qd8 24.Ne2 Be5 {[%eval -187,17]})
17... Bf5 18.Qf3 Re8 0-1
Funny: out of Rybka's "book" after two moves!
Funnier: the first evaluation of the position, after White's 12th move, indicated that if the first player had made the right choice, he would only have been slightly worse.
Funniest: check out Rybka's suggestion for Black after his 14th move - the computer was seriously getting into the complex position.
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