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Subject: Re: Draw against Crafty 18.10 after only 10 moves!?

Author: Eduard Nemeth

Date: 09:22:28 06/25/01

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On June 25, 2001 at 11:45:35, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 25, 2001 at 10:27:00, Eduard Nemeth wrote:
>
>>On June 25, 2001 at 10:14:10, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On June 25, 2001 at 09:03:27, Eduard Nemeth wrote:
>>>
>>>>"Now" I played this curious game. Why this? ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>You are not using "crafty's book".  The GUI played a line Crafty didn't like,
>>>so it went for the repetition.  Not unusual.
>>>
>>
>>Hello Robert!
>>
>>I played all games under Fritz with GENERAL.ctg. I have hot an Crafty-BOOK.
>>Is general.ctg a bad book?
>>
>>Kind Regards,
>>Eduard
>
>
>No... it is generally OK.  The problem here was the rating issue.  I don't know
>what your rating is, but the suggested fix is to add this to your crafty.rc
>file:
>
>rating 2400 2200
>
>that should set the drawscore appropriately.  If you can't do this in the fritz
>GUI, see if you can set the contempt factor.  If so, set it to -20, which will
>do the same thing as the above rating command.


Hello Robert!

Ok. I play with drawscore -20 and general.ctg. My games are "without" many book-
-moves. When I play 1.e4 c5 2.e5? is in General + Powerbooks the end from moves,
too after 1.e4 c5 Na3!?. :-)

Kind Regards,
Eduard




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