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Subject: Re: Crafty would trade too !?

Author: Robin Smith

Date: 11:09:53 06/09/01

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On June 09, 2001 at 11:19:49, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 09, 2001 at 05:18:45, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On June 08, 2001 at 15:19:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>Here is a cute position that occurred between a commercial program and Crafty
>>>last week:
>>>
>>>[D] 8/p4pp1/3rk2p/4p3/2P5/2K4P/P2R1PP1/8 w - - 0 1
>>>
>>>Crafty was black and moved the rook to d6, offering a trade.  The opponent
>>>took it and was happy to do so.  Unfortunately, white is lost.  White saw
>>>the passed pawn and apparently was quite happy.  Crafty's static evaluation
>>>for this position is -1.0 roughly.
>>
>>depth=15 1/20 +0.00 1. Rxd6+ Kxd6 2. Kb4 Kc6 3. Ka5 f5 4. h4 Kc5 5. Ka6 Kxc4 6.
>>Kxa7 Kb4 7. Kb6 Ka3 8. Kc7 Kxa2
>>
>>Am I missing something here?
>>
>>After the trade I get:
>>
>>depth=15 1/20 -0.15 2. Kb4 Kc6 3. c5 f5 4. h4 g5 5. h5 g4 6. a3 e4 7. Kc4 f4 8.
>>Kd4 g3 9. fxg3
>>
>>Not very convincing...
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>
>Apparently I have made more changes in 18.10 than I realized.  At depth=15,
>my score is way below zero...  But the main thing is to avoid Rd6 which simply
>loses...

You keep saying this "simply loses", but with what evidence?  With Crafty 18.08
vs. itself, at both 13 plies/move and 15 plies/move the game is drawn.  If it
loses at all it certainly isn't simple.

Robin



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