Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:58:55 05/10/98
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On May 10, 1998 at 21:19:45, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi Bob: >I just downloaded crafty 14,9 and as much as never I have been capable >to get a decent library for it it happens I currently polay without it >againts your criature; is, besides, a way to do things differently. >Well, to my amazement Crafty followed thjis line: > >d2d4 d7d5 >c2c4 dxc >g1f3 Qd5?? >b1c3 Qa5 ?? >Bd2 Qb6?? >e2e4 c6 >Bxc4 Qxbp?? >O-0 e6 >a3 Qb6 (forced, of course) > >I left here the game. As you see, black has not developed nothing and >white is a model of development and many threats are coming. Just e5 >lets black desperately cramped, to begin with. > >Now my question: how a so powerful and reputed program can play so badly >just because he is not aided by the book? Don't you expect from a >modern, top program a kind of decent understanding even if he has no >book? Not even a beginner with a couple of lessons play Qxbp or just go >with the queen from one place to another. Or Crafty 14,9 just went badly >out of the production line? > >My feeling is -yes, feelings; I don't dare to have "ideas" any more in >this so technical group- that a good test of chess understanding of >modern programs is how well or bad they play the opening without the >ortopedic aid of a book. I thought that they had to have an inbuilt >device in the code to avoid such a awful play. My computer is a 200 MMX >intel. I hope you tell me that Crafty 14,9 was a disaster and has been >condemned to firing squad... :-) >fernando I'm not sure about "14.9" but somewhere in there I clearly broke the development code, which is why all those queen moves happened. I'd suggest trying 15.4, which is the most recent version. However, without a book, most anything can happen, given the right time control and opponent. But, in general, it shouldn't play like that... and it certainly knows that those queen moves are all bad...
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