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Subject: Re: penalty for opening H file of opponent when white and castled kingside

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 04:54:00 10/04/00

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On October 03, 2000 at 18:18:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 03, 2000 at 12:34:11, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On October 03, 2000 at 11:58:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On October 02, 2000 at 13:54:23, Mike Adams wrote:
>>>
>>>>The move that my freind said crafty considered was the pawn takes knight move
>>>>toward the end.  Knight takes bishop earlier wreked the positon and i dont think
>>>>pulsar would get itself into that kind of postion again with the current
>>>>evaluate.
>>>
>>>
>>>taking the knight isn't particularly bad.  NxB opens a file against your own
>>>king.  PxN (I assume that is the knight you are talking about taking) is a
>>>reasonable move for white.  He wants that open file.
>>
>>Mike did not mean to that knight.
>>
>>He meant to taking the knight by gxf3 in the following line
>>
>>[D]r1bq1rk1/ppp2p2/2n4p/3pP1pn/3P4/2P2NB1/P1P1B1PP/R2QK2R b KQ - 0 14
>>
>>Nxg3 hxg3 g4???? Qd2 gxf3????
>>
>>avoiding gxf3 is a simple tactics.
>>Crafty17.11 can see at depth 7 that gxf3 is bad.
>>
>>The bigger problem is to avoid g4 and crafty17.11 needs depth 9 for it.
>>
>>Fritz5.32 can avoid gxf3 at depth 5 and it can avoid g4 also at depth 5.
>>
>>Hiarcs4 can avoid gxf3 at depth 3.
>>Faile 1.4.4 can avoid gxf3 at depth 6.
>>CometB02 can avoid gxf3 at depth 5.
>>
>>All these programs that are not the best programs need few seconds or less than
>>1 second on a slow hardware to avoid gxf3.
>>
>>I think that you need to improve the tactical ability of your program and
>>working on positional knowledge is less important.
>>
>>Chess is a tactical game.
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>Yes... but the tactical ability improves automatically.  You should try it on
>my quad xeon.  It fries tactical things there.  :)

Crafty is a good program, but perhaps the way you should be looking at this is
maybe you would write a better program if you were running on slower hardware.
Fast hardware can cover up a lot of deficiencies of a program as you have
essentially pointed out.



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