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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