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Subject: Re: ? David Levy Opening ?

Author: James Robertson

Date: 22:00:56 01/21/99

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On January 21, 1999 at 23:33:48, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 21, 1999 at 18:43:44, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On January 21, 1999 at 16:57:31, Helcio Alexandre Pacheco wrote:
>>[snip]
>>>When the scored was 5-0 a light came to my mind and I played David Levy Opening
>>>and bang!!! I was playing a crafty clone... The game went through 150 moves,
>>>and, of course, I won on time (although crafty can play a game in less then a
>>>sec...:), after moving the same piece a hundred times (don't try this at home
>>>;).
>>What is the David Levy opening?  Do you have some PGN of this opening in use I
>>could examine?  Is it also valuable for a win, or only for a draw?
>>>[snip]
>
>playing on decent hardware this won't work.  It is sometimes called the
>'hippo' opening, with (generally, human playing white) pawns on d3/e3, and
>also a3/b3 and g3/h3.  Very cramped.  Against a computer that won't lose on
>time, it is probably hopeless.  (I can't imagine any crafty running out of
>time in only 150 moves unless something was wrong.)  But you are welcome to
>try this against 'crafty' on ICC as a guest, most any time control you want.



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