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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:28:09 06/25/01

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On June 25, 2001 at 12:22:28, Eduard Nemeth wrote:

>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


We need to set up a match on ICC where you play that e4 c5 Na3 stuff.  However,
I don't generally play c5 as black (Crafty) anyway so it doesn't matter.  :)




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