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Subject: Re: Fritz defeats itself at Leiden!

Author: Ralf Elvsén

Date: 04:26:03 05/22/01

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On May 21, 2001 at 10:34:08, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On May 21, 2001 at 00:58:33, Vine Smith wrote:
>
>>I thought Crafty's choice was the most sensible of those summarized by Sune
>>Larson. I will run the position after Fritz's 21.b4 to see if Crafty has a
>>strongly negative view of what White has done. That would be important for any
>>program trying to win from this point, as failure to understand that keeping the
>>queen confined must be a priority could result in the premature release of this
>>piece for the sake of less important advantages. I'm going to use 18.9 instead
>>of Larsson's 18.8 (the Chessbase version, I'm guessing), because I prefer to
>>work from the command line. Are there any significant evaluation differences
>>between recent Crafty versions?
>
>I didn't see much in the way of eval changes in 18.9... it is mainly a more
>aggressive "book learner" with a few other minor changes.  The evals should be
>pretty similar (not identical however).
>
>18.10 is more different, as bishop scoring has changed after several hours of
>GM discussion.  Castling is handled a bit differently too.

Will this affect how it evaluates bad bishops in the
endgame? This is one pretty clear weakness I think I can identify.

Ralf



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